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If I Could Have Dinner
If I could have dinner with five people dead or alive I’d want to have dinner with J.K. Rowling, Daniel Radcliffe, Marie Antoinette, Oprah, and God. My reason for these choices are that these individuals each have a story that had some sort of impact in the world whether it be creation or imagination. Regardless of how much time goes by they will still be remembered as a part of what made the generations the way they were. The first person I’d want to have dinner with would be J.K. Rowling this is because I became infatuated with her Harry Potter series at a young age, which then created this love of literature and a desire to inspire, no pun intended. I’d want to ask her about to novel and what inspired a world of magic and muggles. It’s a cliche question, yet there is something about asking questions to one of your …show more content…
But it’s rather odd that the people would copy her style and then blame her for the debt that France was in, it’s rather amusing when you think about it. I’d want to ask her if she could do it over again would she fight for love or stand her ground on her Austrian fashion and not indulge in the bougie fashion that was forced upon her by the french, which would mean that the french people are the cause of their own debt when you consider the events that took place. Next I would want to talk to Oprah only because I’m so intrigued by how far she has gone in the tv business as and African American woman. Now I know some people will say that that’s crazy or odd for me to to word that last sentence, but it is true if you look back at some of Oprah’s videos from the past that there were racial issues, so to see her continue to strive despite it all is very

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