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11/15/07

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Mark Twain And The Necktie

I really need not introduce you to Samuel Langhorne Clemens a.k.a Mark Twain as he is one of the most famous American writers of all time. However, I do know a tid bit about him that you may be unaware of.

When the writer returned from a visit to his colleague, and fellow writer Harriet Beecher Stowe, his wife became most upset with him when she saw that he had not been wearing his necktie.

Twain responded by promptly putting a necktie in a box, and had it sent around to Harriet's house with the instructions that she was to keep it for exactly one half of an hour, (the length of his visit) and then send it back to him.

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