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Okay, good. Me assuming everyone has a GP is a great example. I'm in Norway, where everyone _does_ have a GP automatically. I could nonchalantly say "You should speak to your GP about X" as if having a GP was the norm, since that's the only thing I've ever experienced. When I see "you should speak to your lawyer about X", I'm reading that as the same kind of assumption that "having" a lawyer is the norm; that speaking to a lawyer you have an established relationship with is just a normal thing to do.


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