As a child when Florence went swimming she often found herself a whole lap ahead of her friend Constance
As a reward her mother used to buy her a slushy drink from the corner store Florence always chose to drink it through a bendy straw full of twists and turns Florence knew she’d grow up to be a colorful woman A Florence full of flair
When Leon was a young boy competing with his friend Simon on the soccer pitch sometimes he would end up diving sideways to the ground with the length of his whole body in the absolutely wrong direction
To console himself when he returned home he would pour himself a big glass of mango and melon juice He would drink it with a superlong straw that stretched to infinity Leon knew he’d become a tall man one day A long Leon
