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The person is having a recurring dream about hosting a perfect party with all their favorite people, including old friends and even acquaintances. They would have a beautifully set dining room with stolen silverware and dinner plates, and even finger bowls if they could find them. They imagine having cocktails, hot hors d'oeuvres, and a first-rate cook in the kitchen, with maids to serve. The person's husband thinks the dream would be too expensive, but they still think it would be worth it sometimes. Lately I've been having this reoccurring dream. We've given this perfect party. We have our dining room back and Grandmother's silver, before it was stolen. And Charlie's mother's royal blue dinner plates, before the moose dropped them. And even the finger bowls, if I knew where they were. And then I invited all our favorite people. Oh, I don't mean just our old friends. I mean everyone we've ever known and liked. We'd have the men who fixed our Toyota, and the intelligent young couple that brought the Peyton house, and the receptionist at the doctor's office, and the new teller at the bank. And our children would be invited too. And they'd all come back from wherever they are. We'd have two cocktails and hot hors d'oeuvres, and a first-rate cook in the kitchen, and two maids to serve. And everyone would get along fabulously. My husband laughs when I tell him this dream. Do you realize, he says, what a party like this would cost? Do you realize what he'd have to pay these days for a party like that? Well, I know. I know all that. But sometimes, I think it'd almost be worth the cost.