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Dear Mary

Dear Mary: How can I stop my sister-in-law pinching food off my plate?

1 May 2021

9:00 AM

1 May 2021

9:00 AM

Q. Since the relaxation of lockdown, my brother and his wife have started coming to our garden for takeaway meals. My sister-in-law always says she isn’t going to eat at all, so we mustn’t order anything for her. But when the food arrives, she gets a fork and enthusiastically begins picking off everyone else’s plate.

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