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Within minutes, there was chocolate everywhere. On his face, his hair, his arms, my arms. Then he inexplicably started trying to remove his cow T-shirt. I could see a theater impresario I knew from Dublin in a gathering to my left and to my right, the restaurant’s manager Maria circling and kindly ignoring our kiddo, the disrobing toddler. “It’s fine,don’t worry,” my friend said. “They’re used to it.” My eggs arrived. They were terrific. Perfectly poached with a blissful kick of chilli. But still. I hoovered up probably the best egg dish I’d had in my life like it was a pack of peanuts on the M50. We left hurriedly.
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