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Miss Manners: Discreet inquiry will uncover co-worker’s marital status

A noninvasive way to determine marital status is to assume a co-worker is married and to ask questions about a spouse.

Miss Manners: Uncomfortable question may require candid response

What to do when a man complains to a woman who is not his wife about his lack of a sex life.

Miss Manners: Texting a marriage proposal is not recommended

The Gentle Reader has somehow managed to captivate two men who texted proposals to her.

Miss Manners: Every profession is subject to dumb remarks posing as wit

An accomplished viola player is tired of ignorant digs meant to be droll.