"You're terribly welcome, of course," says Susan, whipping her phone out to take another photograph, this time of a brightly-colored beetle. "I don't suppose you'd have any interest in helping me sort out some parts of a social calendar for when the weather gets much colder, would you? Just the parts that would be enjoyable to you, naturally, not the large-scale events." She's noticed, of course, that he can be a bit of a wallflower and prefers not to be the center of attention or stay overlong in large gatherings.
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