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Dear Mary

Dear Mary: What do we do with a teenage guest who hogs the bathroom?

And what do you say when offered a lift in a terrifying old banger?

16 August 2014

9:00 AM

16 August 2014

9:00 AM

Q. We have taken a flat in Edinburgh for a month and a young girl, temporarily homeless and a friend of one of our sons, has moved in with us. We like her very much but the problem is that she goes into the (only) bathroom for more than one hour at a time, sometimes twice a day.

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