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May 18 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
@chrishawtree

Next "Downton Abbey" invading America on Friday. 🥶
@chrishawtree

Some notes from LAST "Downton" ( pre-Covid). A bit closer to other human strangers than I think I will ever get again.
@chrishawtree.

Heaven knows what lusts will be released when the menagerie heads to the South of 🇫🇷 France.

#DowntonAbbey
@chrishawtree @LaSeletzky

Addendum. #DowntonAbbeyANewEra

I dimly recall a "distant relative" from 1912 Titanic sinking returning, but with bandaged face, then plot dropped him flat.

Or perhaps I was hallucinating.

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