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Lunch with my agent is going nowhere, so I decide to share my latest motoring anecdote I’m having lunch with my agent – an infrequent occurrence, because…

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The Guardian reports: Lunch with my agent is going nowhere, so I decide to share my latest motoring anecdote I’m having lunch with my agent – an infrequent occurrence, because neither of us ever has any good news for the other.

“Sorry to make you come all this way,” she says, “but I had to be near the office today.”

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