i want to live like common people

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They were there today, swanning around in their black gowns, parading their poshly frocked parents through the shopping centre, very high heels clickety-clacketing across ancient streets and through medieval arches, following in the footsteps of such infamy as Samuel Pepys, Hugh Laurie, Isaac Newton and Sylvia Plath. The uncommon folk. The intelligent folk. Folk with brains. Tomorrow they will cure cancer, marry Prince Harry, spout scientific intelligence on the tellybox and snort cocaine, after becoming Hollywood stars. Last week they sang raucous melodies at five in the morning, skinny-dipping in the river as swans nibbled their toes, their expensive ballgowns thrown haphazardly over shop signs which swung lightly in the breeze of a warm morning. But today they graduated from a world famous university, the cream of Britain's crop and their rich foreign friends, filling the city with their posh cars and their posh frocks and their posh money ... The students will return in the autumn, but for now the city can rest. We just have millions of tourists to contend with instead. *smile*