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Mary Killen

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Dear Mary / Dear Mary: how should I have dealt with a seat thief?

Q. When guests are leaving our house they sometimes ask: ‘Would you like me to strip my bed?’ The truthful answer is often: ‘No, because you are...

21.07.2026 9

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Mary Killen

Dear Mary / Dear Mary: how should I have dealt with a seat thief?

Q. When guests are leaving our house they sometimes ask: ‘Would you like me to strip my bed?’ The truthful answer is often: ‘No, because you are...

21.07.2026 8

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Mary Killen

Dear Mary: Help! I have four girlfriends

Q. I am 26 and my problem is that I have four girlfriends. None of them knows about the other three. The background is that my previous girlfriend...

15.07.2026 9

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Mary Killen

Dear Mary: Help! I have four girlfriends

Q. I am 26 and my problem is that I have four girlfriends. None of them knows about the other three. The background is that my previous girlfriend...

15.07.2026 9

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Mary Killen

Dear Mary: What should I do if the view’s no good with my free tickets to Wimbledon?

Q. Around this time of year a friend, who somehow gets hold of tickets through an agency, usually asks me last minute to Wimbledon. The trouble is...

14.07.2026 10

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Mary Killen

Dear Mary / Dear Mary: should guests offer to reimburse me for charging their electric car at my house?

Q. I’m an artist and work from home painting people’s pets from photographs. While working I take a lot of FaceTime calls from friends, with my...

09.05.2026 20

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Mary Killen

Dear Mary / Dear Mary: how can I prevent my daughter from getting ‘tweakments’?

Q. My husband has been appointed to a post in Wales and we as a family have moved here for the foreseeable future. My daughter, who is 15, is very...

05.05.2026 10

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Mary Killen

Dear Mary / Dear Mary: how can I prevent my daughter from getting ‘tweakments’?

Q. My husband has been appointed to a post in Wales and we as a family have moved here for the foreseeable future. My daughter, who is 15, is very...

05.05.2026 20

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Mary Killen

Dear Mary / Dear Mary: How do we get more men to our singles’ events?

04.02.2026 30

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Mary Killen

Dear Mary / Dear Mary: How do we get more men to our singles’ events?

04.02.2026 30

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Mary Killen

A lament for the landline

31.01.2026 30

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Mary Killen

A lament for the landline

29.01.2026 20

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Mary Killen

Dear Mary / Dear Mary: do my AirPods make me look like an imbecile?

04.10.2025 20

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Mary Killen

Dear Mary / Do I have to read the romantic novel my neighbour has based on me?

11.09.2025 30

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Mary Killen

Dear Mary / Dear Mary: how can I tell young people to pipe down at dinner parties?

07.05.2025 20

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Mary Killen

Dear Mary / Dear Mary: how can I tell young people to pipe down at dinner parties?

07.05.2025 20

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Mary Killen