In a vet's consulting room, a shaggy brindle crossbreed sits calmly beside a red-haired woman in her thirties with a neat new fringe, who holds out a short handwritten list to a South Asian woman vet in her fifties.

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The Fringe

It’s been a bad month, so you book a haircut. You walk out with a fringe, feeling like someone in a French film. On Monday the same alarm goes off, the same inbox is waiting, and now you also have a fringe to look after.

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