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The writer brought a gibbon in a little dinner jacket
Accounts of writer Emily Hahn’s life in 1930s Shanghai describe her taking her pet gibbon, Mr. Mills, to dinner parties. He wore a diaper and a small dinner jacket. Her social companion was markedly different from the human guests around the table.
The jacket belonged to an unexpected dinner guest.
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