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Plato’s Symposium Is Actually About Love

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I have been obsessed with dinner parties since I was eight or nine. At this age my greatest desire was to get my mum to let me stay up for the ones she threw for her friends. Once I even succeeded. It was amazing. and yes; it involved a hostess trolley. As an adult I have therefore made it a priority in my life to throw a lot of dinner parties.
The problem with dinner parties, from the point of view of a hostess, is that so much is always going on and once and you can only be in one place at a t

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