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Dear Mary

Dear Mary: When is it all right not to bring something to a dinner party?

Plus: An avocado dessert recipe and another way of seeing off handsy hosts

14 March 2015

9:00 AM

14 March 2015

9:00 AM

Q. A wonderful and generous woman invites me, on a regular basis, to dinner parties at her house. What is an appropriate gift for an impoverished artist to take along on such occasions? I am always told by her that I shouldn’t have brought anything but my rigid British upbringing is telling me otherwise.

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