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Breakfast… My extended, if slightly eccentric family gathers around the table… Noise and chatter. What will we all be doing? Plans… Happenings… Mitch and Beth exchanging notes on clothes: for adults, for infants, for toddlers… Charlotte attacking her customary gargantuan meal with her customary gusto… I consider her plate… Bacon, eggs, sausages, tomatoes, mushrooms… Pregnant… Scooping mixed berries into a bowl, I set it by her with the yoghurt pot. Mouth full, she flashes eyebrows and a smile at me. Klempner… Poached eggs… Three… His daily habit, grown almost a holy ritual by now. Michael crunches on toast, swilling it down with orange juice. “Mitch, Larry, I was thinking. Where you"re living, by the stables. It was originally meant to be my office…” Mitch’s face falls. “I