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They would serve a special dinner, set a place for him at the table, chat with him.

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So complete was this crush that the teenager set a place for Waitkus, whom she'd never met, at the family dinner table.

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She was the Saturday evening dinner keynote speaker at the India Today Conclave , a gathering of political and business leaders that took place in New Delhi Friday and Saturday.

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