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The idea was so simple, it was genius. Pure, elegant, cheap. Just what Brewster was looking for - he could feel the lightbulb above his head heat up.
Paris. June. The old man stood and waited and stared until he saw himself in the youth that passed him by. It was a warm morning, but the clammy stink of the city still felt fresh. He leant against the wall, studying the parade of young pilgrims file happily through the gates of Pere Lachaise cemetery.
“You tampered with the universe my friend, and when a man does that he has to pay the price.”
“You may think I’m beautiful Dr Roberts, but I’m not. I have lots of defects to fix.”
The naked man walked past without a care in the world. He smiled and waved. Instinctively she smiled and waved back, English courtesy always a fallback when nothing else came to mind.
The rose cut his mouth. Sitting on a park bench in his lunchtime break, he'd pondered the urge for a good half hour before he leant over the warning sign, grasped the vibrant pink bud in his fist and yanked back. The flower uprooted from the bed in a flurry of mud, the stem snapped and he shoved the plant into his gaping maw.

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