"Do you remember we were going to run away together? Find some distant bit of countryside somewhere in Europe where nobody would ever think to look for us, get some animals, plant some fruit trees. We'd go and see our nearest neighbours, two miles away, and swap milk for wine, beef for chicken, apples for peaches. Our phones would stop working and eventually, everyone would forget we'd ever existed at all."
"It never would have worked. We like civilisation too much."
"I know. We'd have fought all the time. But I think I might have preferred fighting with you in the middle of nowhere to being happy here."
"That's a really stupid thing to say."
"I know that."
"...I would still go, you know. If you wanted to."
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