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Dear Mary

Dear Mary: Another way to deal with a maddening blackhead

Plus: Getting elderly acquaintances off the phone; the modern etiquette of thank-you letters

17 October 2015

8:00 AM

17 October 2015

8:00 AM

Q. Might I suggest an alternative solution to E.B. of London’s problem (3 October) about the person sporting a ‘maddening’ blackhead at a poolside party? Surely a more tactful way of drawing the man’s attention to the blackhead would have been for E.B. to pretend she thought it was an insect that had landed.

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