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They look at him, puzzled.
“Wake up guys! Today! You did something new today! You both did skits on that stage! That was brilliant.”
“CandiCrush does Crown Green Bowls,” says KristalClear.
Not having seen her approach, NutJob says, “darling, I was looking for you.”
She takes hold of his hand, “and I was looking for you too!”
“I do Archery sometimes,” says MaxChaos, “helping Mr Rafone with the Sunday League.”
KristalClear adds, “And Mr Rafone and AuntSylvie run a Scrabble Club here.
KristalClear has guessed the general nature of the conversation, and recognises the precise message that NutJob wants to deliver. Her mum had told her about Open Doors, and she had told him, and now he’s passing it forward.
“This is the Open Doors chat isn’t it?” she says.
“You have to open doors,” says NutJob, “to doors that open, to more doors that open, even if you don’t know what’s behind them. Use the mindset ‘go out and do some good in the world’ and you’ll also discover that you’re opening some pretty useful doors!”
“The dots will join up,” says KristalClear, “we don’t know how, and we don’t know when, but it will all fall into place. But you can’t do it if you have no dots.”
NutJob finishes by saying “the one thing you can be sure of, is that if you never do anything, and you never meet anybody, then you’ll never get a girlfriend!
KristalClear changes the subject. With a happy smile she says “Ulverston.”
“Yes! Tell me more.”
“We’re not going to be here for OpenMike Night next week. We’re on the Saturday afternoon ferry and we’ll be met by Constable Burgess, and HopAlong and EarlyBird. I haven’t seen them for years. The last time I was in Ulverston I was only ten years old!”
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