Once again she returns to the kitchen to make her cup of tea and realizes she never turned the stove on to boil the water in the tea kettle, so she turns the dial and adjusts the flame, grabs an apple and a stack of mail that needs attention and heads back into her office and back to me.

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One of the servants would bring her a cup of tea, which she drank with Shah Sahib, who also at that time received two slices of grilled-cheese toast, a treat that made his stomach growl, and one that he insured by being of service to the cook, passing his bills without question.

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An hour later, he had entered her enclosed studio to give her a cup of hot herbal tea with honey.

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She gently coaxed Diane into coming into the house for a cup of tea while her husband rang Joanne and the police.

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Alvin, " she said, with tears in her eyes, "a cup of tea?

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She hangs up and turns to her computer to poke out a few lines, then gets up to get another cup of tea and turns back around to save and name her document.

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She ordered hot tea, and the suit says the flight attendant brought her a cup of "extremely hot water" sitting in another cup which contained the tea bag and condiment packets.

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Roya Hamid sat cross-legged on the velvet mat, a cup of green tea next to her.

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Joe Biden of Delaware, when asked if he wanted to be her VP, he said competing with Bill Clinton isn't his cup of tea.

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Obviously if it were her own it would have come out looking like a fine china tea cup and smelling of spring's early blooms.

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