Series 1 at-a-glance

Series 1 at-a-glance
You can see the individual pages here.
[Note: due to bogging format they are in reverse order.]

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end of Series 1, Number 25

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But I couldn't stop thinking about Melissa . . .
Melissa: Goodbye Ashley. I hope we meet again someday. I'll pray for your friend.

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Series 1, Number 24

Now my heart is full.

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Series 1, Number 23

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Ashley: I was shattered. I didn't feel up to the short walk home alone. I rang Nicola to walk with me. To my surprise she brought Victoria and Silvia with her. I was so glad to see them. For a moment it was like old times. Something was changing but I wanted us to stay together forever. We are bound together by something more than time and place and even our shared experience.

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Series 1, Number 22

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Lost Girls
Ashley: I was proud of what the SSK Girls had accomplished. We didn't find Emily but we did help a lot of 'Lost Girls.' It's true what they say: girls are too smart to fall out of the pram. So a massive industry exists to take us by force. This isn't a fairy tail. This is real. And I'm done with waiting for a happy ending.

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Series 1, Number 21

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Letting Go
Ashley: I had to face the facts. Emily was gone. It was time to let go.
Goodbye, my love goodbye. Je ne t'oublierais pas.

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Series 1, Number 20

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Ashley: I realised it was time for me to put it all in perspective.

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Series 1, Number 19

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Ashley: Dazed and Confused
"I was still feeling dazed after Melissa left. I sat alone. Talking to her was like confession: telling your secrets to a stranger. I felt naked and vulnerable. Everything came flooding back. The good times and the bad . . ."

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Series 1, Number 18

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Ashley tells Melissa about Emily.
I told Melissa my whole crazy story. About meeting Emily and her strange disappearance.
Ashley: Her last name is Blair, but we call her Emily Blur. I think I see her everywhere. When I'm alone I imagine where she might be.
Melissa was friendly and sympathetic.
Melissa: I wish there was something I could do. But I'm just here on a two-week school trip. I fly back to Dayton tomorrow.
We exchanged numbers and promised to stay in touch.
Ashley: Dayton, Ohio?! My mum used to go there on business.
Melissa: That's amazing! Look me up if you're ever in the neighborhood.

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Series 1, Number 17

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Ashley meets Melissa.
Ashley: What happened?
Melissa: You had a spell and thought I was someone else. My name is Melissa. You still look a little woozy. Would you like to get some coffee?
Ashley: Okay, yeah. I know a place near here.

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Series 1, Number 16

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Ashley Has A Vision
Ashley: Emily?!? Is that you?
Melissa: Excuse me? Are you okay? Should I, like, call for help or something?

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Series 1, Number 15

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Outside Brompton Oratory . . .
Ashley: I sit on the stone steps with nothing much to do. I see it all before me. The days of love and toment. If you don't believe me, you can ask Saint Thomas.
Emily: Why do you look for the living among the dead?

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Series 1, Number 14

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"To know our enemies' minds, we'd rip their hearts,"
Edgar in King Lear (Act IV, Scene VI) by William Shakespeare.

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Series 1, Number 13

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I spy for the Spirit of Curiosity.
Every Elvis has her army.
So paste up pictures of those shrill and hollow girls.
Of course, red is the new blonde.

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Series 1, Number 12

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Ashley: Hello? Where are you?
Nicola: I'm right behind you. Wait for me yeah?
unknown in shadows: She's headed home, boss. Do you want I should follow her there?
unknown in office: No. We have what we need. That will be all for now.

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Series 1, Number 11

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I was walking home one afternoon in the Old Brompton Road.
I only stopped for a cupcake.

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Series 1, Number 10

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I practice Russian on the Circle line, 'Очень приятно.'
My tongue sticks to the cold consonants like tourist fingers on a postcard rack:
'Да благословит Господь землю.'
I'm a drink teenage girl laughing on a distant atomic playground.
Soon I will be safe and warm in the glow of your diplomatic immunity.
Nicola: 'My koshka! The cold war is over.'

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Series 1, Number 9

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Meanwhile, back in Kensington Gardens . . .
Maybe it's nothing. What? What? Or maybe, even then, impervious in London . . . could be a difficult thing . . . if you become naked.

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Series 1, Number 8

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Ashley Looks For The Truth
A gang of brave new world lads engaged us for an evening of masks and mayhem.
But these new media boys just want the same old in and out.
They search for the truth but it's all used up.

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Series 1, Number 7

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ASHLEY HAS A REASON
In the city or just outside, it's all the same.
Now I have a reason and I'm still waiting.

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