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LUNCHEON OWCHERS

From the OTHER SIDE OF THE DESK

The old warning that there is no such thing as a free lunch does not in my view go far enough. I recently had the experience of a client passing on some business to me, a couple where the wife had written a series of self-published books which for reasons I won’t go into a major publishing house was now interested in acquiring.

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