In today's column, Miss Manners responds to a reader's question about an appropriate time of mourning before dating again.
The surviving husband and widowed neighbor would enjoy going out for meals and activities, but feels uncomfortable doing so. What is the appropriate mourning period? Is that old-fashioned? Surely your friend and the lady have reached what used to be called the Age of Discretion.
They accepted, and returned the books to my wife after they got back. When I examined the books, I realized that they hadn’t returned one of them. Later, my wife mentioned the missing book to the other wife, but she insisted that they had returned all of the books.
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