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Dear Mary: should I admit that I don’t like my daughter’s mother-in-law-to-be?

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issue 19 August 2023
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Q. I was at a house party in Yorkshire where one of the other guests had contributed a large joint of cooked beef. Eighteen of us were within minutes of sitting down to eat it with salad for lunch, but while helping to lay the table I could smell that something was not right.

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