Over pizza, our friend made us laugh by saying that if she hadn’t already known that E and I were related, she’d’ve definitely been able to tell after today because, ‘you both spend the entire time you’re in a shop - touching things!’

(Touching things, like: softing the sleeves of jumpers between our forefingers and thumbs as we passed by them, running our palms over the roughness of folded jeans, tracing fingers over the bumpy-soft-silkiness of embroidered t-shirts...)

‘You both do it,’ she said, while E and I turned – surprised – to look at each other.