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  • Heels and Hell(A potential story) by babyplum
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    "When things don't go the way you plan and you find yourself being uprooted from the place that you spent your entire 15 years of life in and feel like everything is spiraling downwards, it probably is. But it doesn't mean that the drop can't be at least a little bit of fun. " Little did Angela know just how wrong she was.
  • Land of a thousand cockroaches : 1986-1987 : Deptford Housing Co-op, London by grantgoddard
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    "Gimme your money!" he shouted, pointing a pistol at me. He had jumped out from behind some bushes. It was a dark winter evening. I was alone. Nobody was about. I was ten metres from the entrance to New Cross railway station, about to return home, having walked my girlfriend to her train after an evening together. Street lighting beyond the railway was abysmal. I jumped with surprise. It was my first mugging. It was my first year living in London. I was aware of the advice: hand over your wallet and do not argue. I knew the fate of Thomas Wayne.
  • From Riches To Rags by mistap81
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    This is the story of Deborah Baker, a young girl with the world at her feet, coming from a wealthy loving home Deborah's future seems like a positive one. if only life was that simple. set in 1989 and through the 90s in south-east London Deborah's life is about to hit a major speed bump as you see her life spiral out of control through her eyes. Deptford being the main location of this story it promises laughs,tears,London culture, Tragedy, and a grimy criminal underworld ready to take your soul.
  • Whoah, I'm going to Guyana : 1986 : Mary Strong, Radio Thamesmead by grantgoddard
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    People don't just disappear, do they? I don't mean a clothes-on-beach John Stonehouse sort of disappearance. Nor a dead-nanny-on-floor Lord Lucan type of crime. Those were elaborate, doing-a-runner schemes. As was my father disappearing for good with the teenage bride of a neighbour. That had simply been middle-aged madness, but I digress. No, I mean a person who achieves a vanish-into-thin-air disappearance, leaves no trace whatsoever and is never heard from again. Sometimes it does happen.
  • Georgetown Mews Homes by georgetownmewshomes
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    Located in Wenonah, NJ, Georgetown Mews Homes is a part of award building home builders of Fernmoor Homes. Georgetown Mews Homes has been building quality custom homes in NJ & DE and we have the best communities and townhouses in locations like Atlantic County NJ, Delaware Beaches, Gloucester County NJ, Jackson NJ, Jersey Shore, Ocean County NJ and many more places in New Jersey and Delaware.