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Foreign guy takes a table that’s just been vacated in the book shop coffee store. He doesn’t buy and drinks, but sits on the phone until a girl arrives. She is full of energy, pretty, long dark hair, dangling earrings, colourful scarf. They have just started chatting, she promises him articles he will find interesting, as she passes him a memory stick. When suddenly two older women appear, very British compared to this foreign couple. The girl jumps up overwhelmed with surprise, none of the three having expected to see each other in Glasgow at this time. The girl is just back from Sri Lanka, her visa ran out, but she is hoping to get out again, that’s where her mother is from. In the past, for a week, she played guide to these woman when they visited Sri Lanka, spent a week together. They ask where she is staying, she says, sadly, that she is sleeping on a friends couch. But then says with excitement that she has been accepted to university in Edinburgh. The women say that is great, and ask where she will be staying there. Again sad, she says she doesn’t know yet. Then excited, again, she declares she needs a job! Phone numbers are exchanged, with the agreement that they will meet up again in the next week, while they are all here. Leaving the couple to themselves again, she takes his hand in hers, smiles, tells him that she had shown the women his picture last time they met. Then they put on their jackets and leave.