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Declining nude

ANOTHER FAILURE. Basically I decided to go to this life drawing class in Highgate, in response to Will claiming loudly while out for dinner with various parents from Hector’s school that “Claudia has zero passion.”

On our return home, not speaking, he helpfully put this point to our three children. They all agreed, adding that the only things I seem

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