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DEAR MISS MANNERS: My signature perfume is a well-known -- and expensive -- classic scent. For my last birthday I received not one, but two generous gifts of this perfume: one from a dear lifetime ...

Colleagues and strangers continuously ask me why I am not married, as if there is something seriously wrong with that.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I got married at an early age, but the marital bliss was short-lived as my wife died a few years later.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I love to cook and to host dinner parties, and we have many friends who reciprocate. The wife of one of ...