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Dear Mary

Dear Mary: Must I take my mother-in-law’s hideous cast-offs?

26 April 2025

9:00 AM

26 April 2025

9:00 AM

Q. My soon-to-be mother-in-law has started off-loading large amounts of her expensive but hideous cast-off clothes on to me. I don’t want them for many reasons, but we are moving into a much larger flat with lots of cupboards, so I can’t use limited space as a reason to reject them.

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