Mary Killen Mary Killen

Dear Mary | 18 August 2016

Plus: Guests who invite themselves to stay; teenage parties

issue 20 August 2016

Q. My partner and I have been living together for 26 years, but now that he’s asked me to marry him, friends seem determined to give us a wedding present even though we wrote ‘no presents’ on the invitation. We had both been married before we met and already had more than enough ‘stuff’.

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