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Dear Mary

Dear Mary

24 September 2016

9:00 AM

24 September 2016

9:00 AM

Q. How can I tactfully request that well-meaning old friends stop toasting my (new) husband’s hospitality? It seems ungrateful but, during a week’s stay at our new house in France, these much loved friends did it at least once a day, to the point that the other members of the house-party became irritated.

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