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Saturday February 28, 2009

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• Then we committed a great gaffe! When the Allens and E— and I had been safely disposed of, and the introductions and interpretations were being directed toward the other four members of the party, we drank our champagne—we four, the Allens and ourselves!
  Ellen N. La Motte Peking Dust (1919)

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