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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Emily Phillips

Are you ready for the Summer of Strange Love?

Age Gap Summer

You’re early-40s, hot and had a messy, if quiet, divorce after your husband was caught cheating (with a 25 year-old, naturally). You find yourself in London and at a loose end. Who would you call for a few drinks? A man of your own age with matching amounts of emotional baggage, greying hair and management middle? Or would you ring Paul Mescal, hero of the slutty shorts movement?

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