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Dear Miss Manners — I write on behalf of single people such a flattering way that the per- something less, 1 find { just can’t always thought you were probably

everywhere who, though they are educated, articulate and at yon knows you can't really mean bring myself to do it.” h the ideal wife, and I just know I'll
© the roommate's mother, vou never be as wonderful, so 1 puess

least reasonably socially adept, are flummoxed by the often “the uncle should be told, “Oh, say, “Oh, Mrs. Pretzel, I’ve — I've put off trying.” 8

asked an (ostensi y) well meant question, ‘‘Why aren’t Uncle Nelson, 1 keep looking for

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