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Dear Mary

Dear Mary

7 October 2017

9:00 AM

7 October 2017

9:00 AM

Q. We have moved from London into a rural area where we are preparing for the first visit of a lifelong friend who has become
a self-invented countryman. I know that he will insist on foraging for mushrooms, but none of my family wants to go on kidney dialysis machines as a result of being forced to eat them.

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