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      <title>Sorry I refused your lunch</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Good evening, Luis.&lt;br&gt;
Thanks for your concern. My tummy often feels not good after it gets cold. This morning I felt too warm, so I took my coat off.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I want to say sorry to you for rejecting your lunch noon, even though you might think that it doesn&amp;rsquo;t matter at all.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m afraid you might overthink it(something like I don&amp;rsquo;t like your lunch). I rejected you because I think you guys didn&amp;rsquo;t have too much food, and we have a strange culture which is called polite refusal. Sometimes we even find other reasons to reject others. I don&amp;rsquo;t like it, whereas I have this habit.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good evening, Luis.<br>
Thanks for your concern. My tummy often feels not good after it gets cold. This morning I felt too warm, so I took my coat off.</p>
<p>I want to say sorry to you for rejecting your lunch noon, even though you might think that it doesn&rsquo;t matter at all.</p>
<p>I&rsquo;m afraid you might overthink it(something like I don&rsquo;t like your lunch). I rejected you because I think you guys didn&rsquo;t have too much food, and we have a strange culture which is called polite refusal. Sometimes we even find other reasons to reject others. I don&rsquo;t like it, whereas I have this habit.</p>
<p>I hope you weren&rsquo;t overthinking about this. Your lunch looked good and delicious, especially, that it looked like pizza or omelette. I&rsquo;m glad to try it next time if you have some extra food.</p>
<p>And I also hope you don&rsquo;t mind this long message. I was going to tell you tomorrow, nevertheless this thing occupies my mind now.</p>
<p>I also want to use this opportunity to boost my writing skills in English.<br>
Anyway, have a good night.</p>
<p><strong>Reply:</strong><br>
Hi Jinpeng, no worries! I was not overthinking. I happy to share that space with you guys. Yes there may be people from another cultures who overthinking too much 😂,  it was ok for me. I didn’t found it disrespectful or anything bad. Anyway thank you for telling me ! I appreciate it</p>
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