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Thank you so much for your prompt and comprehensive reply, may I just say that I found you quoting your earlier email to be particularly helpful as I'd forgotten quite how I irritated I was by it on first reading.
You have certainly demonstrated extraordinarily effectively why you prefer not to communicate via email, I am sure that both in person and on the phone your lyrical, twinkly Celtic charm is an irresistible force. This is not, sadly, the case on the page, where it is wholly absent.
With this in mind, I'm drawing a close to our correspondence as its fleeting diversionary value has now been exhausted.
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