It was a day that could have happened only in a town like ours: the sun was bright, warm even, but there was a chemical haze in the air, a blurred, dusty quality to the light that we knew from having lived so long in the shadow of the works.

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We cooled off with a quick dip in the rock pool's icy waters and the blistering afternoon sun was quick to warm our shivering bodies when we emerged.

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With the sun shining, the temperature warm and the nights light, the environment was rather conducive to a pleasant mood, and what follows might be influenced by that!

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Only the strut and expensive sunglasses gave away the fact that he was not a Dane out for a stroll in the warm Silkeborg sun.

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