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We stopped at Lowry’s and bought Mrs. Fitzgerald a tin of shortbread, to make up for the fact that we still hadn’t found her purse. Big mistake: that generation is compulsively competitive about generosity, and the biscuits meant she had to get a bag of scones out of the freezer and defrost them in the microwave and butter them and decant jam into a battered little dish
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Hasibul Alam compulsively competitive about generosity compulsive: determined, obsessive (She absolutely had to do this. ) competitive: acting like everything is a contest. (She felt she had to win.
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Hasibul Alamcompulsively competitive about generosity
compulsive: determined, obsessive (She absolutely had to do this. She was neurotic about it.)
competitive: acting like everything is a contest. (She felt she had to win. Nothing would stop her from winning.)
generosity: being kind and caring (She felt nobody was going to do her any favor
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