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Dear Mary

Dear Mary

8 September 2016

1:00 PM

8 September 2016

1:00 PM

Q. We recently stayed for a Saturday night with an old friend and were warned before we arrived that my husband’s carer would not be able to join us for dinner as that would make us 13 around the table. We are devoted to our carer and feel that his exclusion was much more to do with snobbery than superstition.

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