For her traditional Christmas treat Mary has invited some of her favourite figures in the public eye to submit personal problems for her attention.
From Robert Hiscox
Q. Christmas time brings the threat of having to dance at a staff party. As a chairman in my sixties I wonder how to maintain any dignity when dragged on to the dance floor and faced by a gyrating young female.

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