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Dear Mary

Dear Mary: What do you do when your secretary accuses you of not making a pass?

10 February 2018

9:00 AM

10 February 2018

9:00 AM

Q. I am at the age where parts of the body start to go wrong, and I have a minor but life-changing issue. I am in the process of telling my friends when I learn that one of them has a much more serious and life-threatening one. Should I mention my own lesser problem to him, and if so, how? I don’t want to belittle his by seeming to compare notes, but I suspect he would wish to know.

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