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Issue 12  ·  Spring

People who left, and what they found

Twelve stories of moving away: from cities, from jobs, from the people everyone expected them to become.

Inside: Rosa Hale on the night train north, Ade Bello's island bakery, and a year without a phone.
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A woman in a red scarf reading a book by the window of a train

Cover story

Leaving the city

Rosa Hale sold the flat, kept the bicycle and took the night train north.

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A portrait of a woman with red hair in a rust coat, looking to the side

Rosa Hale on leaving the cityThe night train issue

A city skyline at dusk seen from a dark window, one light still on