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1 " Mrs Guinea answered my letter and invited me to lunch at her home. That was where I saw my first finger-bowl.The water had a few cherry blossoms floating in it, and I thought it must be some clear sort of Japanese after-dinner soup and ate every bit of it, including the crisp little blossoms. Mrs Guinea never said anything, and it was only much later, when I told a debutant I knew at college about dinner, that I learned what I had done. "
― Sylvia Plath , The Bell Jar
2 " I've just been to a debutant ball where all the girls were wearing low-cut gowns. It's clear why they're called coming out parties. "
