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Dinner for Three

What 3 VIP Guests Would You Have for Dinner?

Mark Holburn
8 min readJan 20, 2023
Credit: Image by Jill Wellington from Pixabay

I am not accustomed to creating writing prompts as I leave that to the more imaginative, creative and brilliant Medium writers such as Brett Jenae Tomlin, Paul Combs, and yodelling Pierce McIntyre. In addition, the concept of inviting three people to an imaginary dinner is by no means original. Nonetheless, I heard a new twist on this last year which may or not have already been done but was new to me.

The hypothesis is that you can invite any three people you like to your dinner party, but they have to meet this criterion: -

Dinner Guest 1 must be alive and kicking
Dinner Guest 2 must no longer be alive and kicking
Dinner Guest 3 must be a fictional character

This leaves plenty of room for some exciting guests so I won’t ramble on any further as I am sure you get the gist and will start with my dinner guests.

Dinner Guest 1 — Alive and Kicking

Before I mention my first guest which will come as a real shock to people who know me, I will list some honourable selections who will be on the live and kicking reserve list.

As I am only allowed one person alive then I have to rule out so many I would wish to meet. As a…

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Mark Holburn
Mark Holburn

Written by Mark Holburn

Lover of music, sport, animals, humour, movies and decency. A Level in Film Studies.

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