No good deed goes unpunished, even if it’s s good deed done for a lark: back when my friends Hell and Silvia came to visit last month, a common friend’s birthday was coming up, so we did a collection to buy her a present. I advanced the momentous figure of three euro to cover for my friend Lucy’s share – just for a lark, because she’s a great person but she tends to obsess a little over such details, and I wanted her to relax a bit. She retaliated by sending me a book from my Amazon wishlist.

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