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On a town pavement, a smiling middle-aged white woman in a manual wheelchair rolls along on the side nearest the road, where a red bus is passing, while her Boston Terrier trots on a loose lead on her other side, next to the garden railings and well away from the traffic.

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The Inside of the Pavement

There’s an old-fashioned courtesy, still kept by a few: when you walk beside someone, you take the side nearest the road. If a bus sweeps through a puddle, you get the splash. If something comes off the road, it meets you first. A quiet way of saying “I’ve got you.”

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