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Why mutilate a perfectly good pronoun?

29 September 2018

9:00 AM

29 September 2018

9:00 AM

‘I’m just going to pop yourself on hold,’ said the girl from the online shopping firm who was trying to find my amazing disappearing bed.

First a bed I ordered arrived with half of it missing. Then, when I rang to complain, they upgraded me to a better bed by way of apology and when that bed came, it had half missing too.

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