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A Brief Encounter Short Love Story Set in the Age of Covid By Iconic Journalist, Author and Broadcaster Alison Jane Reid exclusively for The Luminaries Magazine.
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Out of the silence, in the deserted museum cafe, came the delirious voice of an Arabian singer.... a voice of exquisite, finely wrought sorrow, passion and tumult. A voice like a whirling dervish of emotion, that breathed stories of other worlds, in a language of longing, desire, colour and mysticism. It felt like a siren call to to live, to love, to travel to be free.
It was intoxicating, given that the world had been standing still during the age of Covid.
