In a bright living room, a Rottweiler sits beside the sofa leaning its big head against the knee of a young white woman with a long red plait and freckles, who has just lifted her hand away from its chest and watches it with a smile, the dog's eyes soft and half-closed.

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At the hairdresser’s, the junior washing your hair starts a head massage. For ten seconds it’s heaven. You close your eyes and sink into the chair. Then, quite suddenly, it isn’t. Your neck is stiff, the water’s going cold, and you’d like your head back. But your head’s in a basin, so you smile and say nothing.

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