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Samia: I'm all the trouble you need. Do you know why I invited you here?
Ginger: For the Brussels sprouts tartare?
Samia: For the long, discreet tablecloths.
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#432, "Entertaining a Fantasy" (2004), collected in Invasion of the DTWOF (2005)

 

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