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Friends · Letter 23

Can we eat before the content?

Fictional launch letter

Dear Duck,

My friend makes everyone wait while she photographs every dish. How can I ask her to stop without ruining dinner?

— Cold Risotto

Dear Hostage of the Overhead Angle,

Say, “One quick photo, then we eat.” Begin eating when the agreed moment passes.

Your dinner does not owe anybody a campaign rollout. If she requires seventeen variations, she may order a private potato and negotiate directly with it. You have come to share a meal, not to appear as supporting cutlery in somebody’s personal brand.

Your turn.

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