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An unnamed schoolgirl, walking home from school alone, notices a lorry parked on a quiet street. Worried by its presence for everything bad it might represent, she sees it again and again, then finally spots the driver, smoking a cigarette. The next day, injured as she flees from a gang of bullies, she runs past the lorry and the driver pulls her inside, giving sanctuary as the schoolgirls outside thump on its walls and shout abuse. Faint, the girl passes out and when she comes to, the man - wit...
This is one of those weird stories that send their tendrils back through your life, until there is never a time when you can't remember having read it and loved it.