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Dear Mary

Dear Mary: Our granddaughters are giving money away to a cause we do not support. Should we cut off their funding?

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23 January 2016

9:00 AM

23 January 2016

9:00 AM

Q. We have two granddaughters working hard and happily at university. It is our pleasure to give them some cash at regular intervals for books, rooms, foreign travel and, we hope, a lively social life. But we have just learned that they have each come under the influence of a new political leader, to whose party and cause they are making serious donations of cash.

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