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Dear Mary

Dear Mary: What can we do about our son’s girlfriend’s appalling table manners?

14 December 2019

9:00 AM

14 December 2019

9:00 AM

Q. My son has a girlfriend who we like but who has appalling table manners. They come to stay most weekends and I really find it painful to sit at a table with her and cannot understand how my son can put up with it. What would you advise, Mary?
— Name and address withheld

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