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On 2025-02-05, Dave Smith wrote:

> We went out with our son and his fiancee to meet her parents.
> [...] but none of the other four seemed to notice.

It was stress hormones. Six people all trying as hard as
they can to not say something stupid that will put everyone
on non-speaking terms for the rest of their natural days.