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Dear Pete, Thanks for the letter. It was nice to hear from you again and get all the news. That holiday of yours must have been marvelous. We keep thinking about fixing something up and in fact Ann has been trying to persuade me to book up for Spain again, but I can’t say I’m very keen---I’m all for staying in this country for a change. As it happens, we probably won’t have all that much time for a holiday, though –we’ve just taken a lease on a flat, and it’ll take us from when we move in until…