"1203? That's a bit of an outlier." He begins to deal the first hand. "Bristol, embarrassingly enough. 2010." It's not really a lie, except by omission; it's the answer to the first sense of the question, presented as if it's the second. The slight hint of Welsh to his accent might, to a good ear, suggest an origin other than Bristol; it would take a truly extraordinary ear to guess that his English wasn't native.
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