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				 Re: A friend wants a cigar... 
 
			
			This might have been tacky, but a while back I had a couple of regular cigar smokers over.  Neither of them had a cigar with them and so the smokes were my treat.  They asked me to tell them what they could have; I said, "You can't have that one, or that one, or that one.  Pick anything else you like."  The "that ones" were a few expensive or special occasion sticks I was saving for myself.  Dunno if they were put off by that, but it was my way of saving the ones I really wanted to keep, while hopefully being hospitable at the same time.
		 
				__________________"I know God won't give me anything I can't handle.  I just wish He didn't trust me so much."
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