There was something about washing up he found grounding. You knew what was expected of you, you knew what success looked like, and you knew when you’d finished. When most things in life offered one of those three at best.

That would involve using his phone as an actual phone, which Paris honestly thought everyone had stopped doing sometime in 2015 even if they didn’t have a crippling fear of speaking to people they couldn’t see. Or, for that matter, people they could.
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А про Алексиса Холла я немного писала здесь:
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