Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Wedding Guests

Not knowing anyone there…

Bill: Wow, look at this crowd. I don’t recognize anyone.  
Jill: Same here. Olive must have had a lot of friends to invite two hundred.
Bill: That tracks. The charisma of an influencer.  
Jill: Remember that massive share house she ran? Like, a hundred residents?  
Bill: Right! And Karl was one of them. So… maybe most of these guests are ex-housemates.
Jill: Place was more commune than house. She did say they were her family.
Bill: But many of them seem to have made it. Gone a bit further than growing veges and making their own clothes. Look at the turnout. I feel underdressed. Even in a bow tie.
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Voice-over
Perhaps the share house is the new urban iteration of the commune some of us knew back in the 60s.

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