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Dress by Haus of Tiger. Model wears Lip Vinyl in Ginger, Dior BB, and cigarette smoke.


She's not getting married in the morning. She runs away from things like bridal shops and wedding cakes and diamond engagement rings. She likes to be free. When she's free she can smoke on her balcony at three in the morning and watch the lights of Prague or Paris run beneath her like flowing rivers of neon. When she's free she can eat alone in resturants in Dubrovnic and Tripoli under cloudless blue skies that stretch forever. When she's free she can go places she doesn't speak the language, and no one knows her, and she could be anyone at all. Because she is not anyone. Not anyone at all.

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Emelie wears knee-high socks by Avoca, dress by Dark Star, jacket by Superdry, boots by Dr Martin, foundation by Dior, lipstick by Rimmel.


Emelie is standing at the gate to her parent's house; it's quite a few years since she's been there. The sun is high and hot although the trees are still leafless, and there's a smell from the barn of old rotting hay and weathered warm wood. The rutted track stretches off in front of her over the hills and far away. She longs to follow it.