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It is good to dress in fair clothes to dine with friends. It honors your host, if you are a guest and your guest if you are a host. And both adorn the feast, and so celebrate the gifts of the world.

Alison Croggon

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Alison Croggon
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 1
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