The seat received him in a loose and distant kind of way, like an aunt…

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The seat received him in a loose and distant kind of way, like an aunt who disapproves of the last fifteen years of your life and will therefore furnish you with a basic sherry, but refuses to catch your eye. ✨ Douglas Adams (2014). Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, p.70, Simon and Schuster
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The seat received him in a loose and distant kind of way, like an aunt who disapproves of the last fifteen years of your life and will therefore furnish you with a basic sherry, but refuses to catch your eye. ✨ Douglas Adams (2014). Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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