Sorry, I was checking my smart phone under the dinner table.

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When my parents passed the mashed potatoes at the dinner table it regularly came with a spoonful of stories about tragic motorcycle accidents, drug overdoses and houses that caught fire from plugged-in toasters.

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My older son is a few hours behind, so our dinner table conversations about HOC are cautious and circumspect.

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"It's my fault, " announced my mother as soon as he began to recount at the dinner table what had transpired there on the eighteenth floor of 1 Madison Avenue.

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As I ate my dinner I was able to look up whenever I liked and see the oak table, the gleaming plate with its chicken leg and baked potato, the glowing silverware, and my reflection looking up alertly, like someone whose attention has been called to an important matter.

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One night at dinner on the ship, my wife and I talked to a couple at the next table.

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"When I go out to dinner with my friends and no one stares at me or asks to be moved to a table further away from me, that's a good day, " she says.

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In my house, every night at dinner we have a big piece of paper that we put on our dining room table as our tablecloth and we doodle.

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