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Dear Prudence, January 8 2024: "Sleepless in SoCal."

When it's time to remember that some people are starving.

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Rachel Wildavsky
Mar 10, 2024
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Original column: Dear Prudence, January 8 2024, letter from Sleepless in SoCal (scroll down).

My take: The LW’s partner, “Luke,” is a lovely guy, but is “unduly embarrassed by random bodily functions.” He “pays dearly for withstanding such pressure during the day”—and now she’s “paying for it, too.”

What pressure is she talking about? Gas. She says he ho…

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