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Dear Mary

Dear Mary: What is the correct form when you find someone hiding from you in a cupboard?

16 June 2018

9:00 AM

16 June 2018

9:00 AM

Q. Is there a tactful way to ask people with whom you’ve been interacting on an almost daily basis over two or more years, what their names are? This couple are neighbours and our dogs play together in the park each week. I wasn’t listening when they first introduced themselves and now I’ve got no way of finding out, as I don’t know any of the other neighbours.

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