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Mar 24, 2024
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Most members of the Oxford Dawn community know that I have a particular bugbear with the average American sense of time, summed up admirably in a proverb a Franco-English friend taught me, ‘one hundred years is a long time for an American and one hundred miles is a long way for an Englishman.’ After watching too many Hallmark and Lifetime films for work…

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