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 | | For 52 families, it will be a time of devastating grief; for four more families, grief too, but partnered with guilt and shame, wondering how a suicide bomber could have grown up unnoticed in their midst. |
 | | But for most Londoners it will be just another day, albeit with a maudlin edge, marked officially by the city with a few quiet ceremonies; unofficially, by its citizens, with a million recounted tales about where they were on the day terror came to town (at the pub, probably). |
 | | Strangers smiled at you on the Tube and - rather than assuming they must be psychotic and quickly staring at your feet, as you normally would - you met their gaze and smiled back. |
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