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The truth was that she (*my grandmother) could never make up her mind to purchase anything from which no intellectual benefit was to be derived (...) We could no longer keep count in the family (...) of all the armchairs she had presented to married couples, young and old, which on a first attempt to sit down upon them had at once collapsed beneath the weight of their recipient. (p.47-49).