Link to the original letter here.

My take: To recap, a cousin of the groom is indignant because older kids are aren’t invited to the wedding, while little kids are. It so happens that all the older kids are from the groom’s side, while all the littles are from the bride’s.

It’s a “snub,” a bunch of the groom’s people now wan…

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Link to the original letter here. Scroll down to find letter from Concerned.

My take: To recap, the LW wants to know if he should carry on with the girlfriend he “loves intensely” and wants to be with “for the rest of our lives,” despite his “qualms” about her. Or might there be someone better out there?

Sure there is! A hornet,…

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Link to the original letter here.

My take: To recap, apparently peeping over the backyard fence, the LW say her neighbor peeing in his yard. His wife was away. “As a woman and a feminist,” the LW is outraged. Should she rat him out to his wife?

Miss Manners delivers the answer.

Chance this letter is fake: Some chance of that, actually, because the woman is…

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Link to original letter here.

My take: To recap, for four years the LW’s husband has “made it clear” to her family that he holds them in contempt and wants nothing to do with them. Now her family has made some generous gifts to their other son-in-law…their nice son-in-law…

…and the …

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Link to original letter here.

My take: To recap, for seven years, the LW had an affair with the married father of two daughters. When his wife found out, the marriage ended and she moved into the father’s new house.

The daughters are now adults. The younger has cut her father off. The older has “admittedly worked very h…

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