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Benjamin Dreyer's avatar

If you'd held a gun to my head, I'd have said that Melton Mowbray was an actor (Alan's elder brother, to be sure, who played a lot of butlers) or a kind of cheese.

Lovely essay (as always), Elizabeth, thank you!

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Thanks as ever for the shot-in-the-arm of your writing. I also have British in-laws, who have taken to Thanksgiving with gusto. Not so much the 4th of July.

America already kicked one king out. I guess we’ll do it again if we have to.

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