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Dear Mary

Dear Mary

11 February 2017

9:00 AM

11 February 2017

9:00 AM

Q. A (very attractive) man I knew at university invited me to a party given by him and his girlfriend. When I got there I found the girlfriend has reinvented herself as a hat designer and there was a pop-up shop at the party. I was bullied into buying one even though, patently, none of them suited me.

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