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.....He held out his glass, but they evidently didn't have that custom. She had a stranger one: she touched the surface of the wine with a fingertip and shook a drop off onto the floor.
.....She smiled at him. "My mother always did that. She said she promised her mother that she would never drink a drop of wine. That was the drop she never drank."
..........— Joe (William) Haldeman (1943 - ), American science fiction author. The Accidental Time Machine (2007).
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