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Where there’s smoke, there’s fire – unless you’re trying to cook chicken on a BBQ

Jane Austen famously begins Pride and Prejudice with “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife”.   Today I think he would want a luxury car and a large house and I imagine that potential wives would miraculously appear. Many old …

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