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MOTHER KNOWS BEST

APART FROM A pretty glaring blind spot around her kids, my mother is a fairly good judge of character. She prides herself on her ability to quickly grasp a person’s true nature and nail it to the wall.

She tastes wine in much the same way. She is a study in the fluent ease of the gifted amateur and the overcomplication of

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