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A friend of mine was staying on the Vineyard and met her a watering trough while horseback riding at like five in the morning. He said she engaged him in polite small talk and was "Very, very."
She never worked. She spent her life studying languages, the various protocols of different cultures, and the arts. That's why she was so poised at age 30 - all she did was work on self-development. She epitomized what a finishing school strove to produce.
She would often serve as interpreter at dinner parties and meetings and frame Jack's reply properly with respect to protocol, custom, and context in a way an American who was merely fluent could not.
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