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Dear Mary

Dear Mary: How can I politely turn down friends’ sponsorship requests?

17 August 2019

9:00 AM

17 August 2019

9:00 AM

Q. I want my guests to feel welcome when they stay with us and certainly don’t want to nag them. My problem is with some in-laws who I can only describe as ‘un-housetrained’. It’s fine when they are downstairs where I can keep an eye on them, but their bedroom is a problem.

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