Mary Killen Mary Killen

Dear Mary: How can we avoid making friends on our cruise?

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issue 12 February 2022

Q. My partner’s work involves him seeing and talking to people all day, every day. I booked us on to a slightly naff though luxurious 12-night cruise in the Med, thinking this would be the perfect antidote since most of the other passengers will be elderly Americans and we would be bound to know no one else on board.

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