No friend requests the loan of your shoes, scrounges a curio from your house, regularly takes home a saucepan or begs for that flowered tablecloth. Of course not. But people often ask for something even more personal, which possibly may never be returned, and if so occasionally in worse shape than when taken, but you will nevertheless give it with a smile and a passing speech of encouragement.
Take another, we say.
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