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| Alleyway discovery London, ON July 2026 This photo originally shared on Instagram |
As I walk toward the back of the alley and round the first corner to snag a photo, I hear a scratching sound to my left. I turn my head and realize I’ve interrupted a middle-aged woman in a tattered hoodie injecting herself in the shadows between a crumbling brick wall and a thick stand of weeds.
I’m standing close enough to her that I feel the need to apologize before heading back to the street. I need not have worried, because she didn’t look up.
As I’m walking out, a salt-and-pepper-bearded man approaches and offers me a swig of beer from an open bottle. I politely decline.
The streets of downtown London are increasingly filled with individual tragedies, none of which offer easy answers or even much hope. I want to cry as I get back into my car and leave it all in my rear-view.
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