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Dear Mary

Dear Mary: How can I sneak into a talk my son is giving without him seeing me?

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27 September 2014

8:00 AM

27 September 2014

8:00 AM

Q. The Idler Academy is within walking distance of my house and I note from the programme of autumn events that my own son is due to give a talk there. We get on well but he hasn’t mentioned this debut, probably because he knows how irritating it would be for him to see me beaming adoringly out of the audience.

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