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Dear Mary

Dear Mary: How do I get back the book I lent to a friend?

30 April 2022

9:00 AM

30 April 2022

9:00 AM

Q. As a publisher, I have been fortunate to discover an unpublished writer who is the author of some truly remarkable poetry. I have made my selection and want to go ahead with his first collection, but my stumbling block is that he is adamant that, along with the remarkable verses, I must include other work which is certainly not of the same quality.

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