"Recently, I went to Amsterdam. Though I loved the city, I did not enjoy being a pedestrian. 'This is for cyclists!' a middle-aged woman with a shock of curly hair shouted as she whizzed past, narrowly missing me.
A couple of days later, I received an email forwarded by my agent, from a person called Didi, asking if I remembered meeting on a train from Assisi to Florence over 40 years ago.
Bear with me if these two events appear somewhat unrelated.
This story is from the September 19, 2023 edition of Woman's Weekly.
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