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Dear Mary

Dear Mary

12 May 2016

1:00 PM

12 May 2016

1:00 PM

How do you persuade your pleasant dinner guests to go home when they will stay into the early hours if not evicted? I once fell asleep and awoke at 3 a.m. to find our two friends still here! They had seen me nod off in my chair, but hadn’t thought to leave of their own free will.

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