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A dinner party prompts a dining room refresh
The prospect of hosting a dinner party at my house filled my heart with panic. I had been wanting to update my dining room. Suddenly, I had an incentive — and a deadline. The dinner party wasn’t my idea. A few months ago, a friend hatched a plan to auction off a dinner for eight…