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Dear Mary

Dear Mary: How can I stop friends laughing at me for learning another language?

4 December 2021

9:00 AM

4 December 2021

9:00 AM

Q. We have moved into a terraced house in a seaside town. Our joy is confined, however, by the fact that our next-door neighbour has bought a new car but left his old derelict vehicle on his driveway as well. Although he takes great care never to walk on our garden, often his visitors do not and a muddy track is developing.

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