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I'm pretty bad about this. Like the story says, I think I'm being "nice," or maybe comforting. Then again, I call pretty much everybody "sugar." I've turned into the papery old queen I long feared . . . .

OH, and--if I call you sugar, there's only a 4.3% chance I'm making fun of you for being incompetent . . . .