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Dear Mary

Dear Mary: How long must I wait to tuck in?

Plus: A definitive ruling on phone etiquette

22 March 2014

9:00 AM

22 March 2014

9:00 AM

Q. I am always making or receiving phone calls which get cut off. When I ring the person back their line is engaged as they are trying to ring me too. Mary, whose responsibility is it to ring back when a call has been disturbed in this way? Can you use your immense authority to rule, once and for all?
— A.B.,

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