Eclecticism: Reflections on literature and life

Eclecticism: Reflections on literature and life

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Reply to Rebecca #23

Tea unceremoniously

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Terry Freedman
Oct 11, 2023
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Dear Rebecca

In your letter, for which I thank you, you asked:

What advice might you have for a young lady (of 27, according to the newspaper cutting you enclosed with your last letter) meeting an internet acquaintance for the first time in real life? How should the two of them, for example, go about ordering tea in a café? If her date is anything like yo…

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