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Dear Miss Manners: Years ago, a close friend of mine was getting married. As I am known as a good baker among my friends, she asked if I would bake her a carrot cake for her wedding. I demurred, ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: You advised a reader that not even the weather is a safe conversation topic nowadays, since it may get into climate change. And asking about accents or last names can be fraught, ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My fiance and I were spending time with an old, close, female friend of his. He noticed she was cold and offered his jacket to her. She wore his jacket for the rest of the evening.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: After two hours at a restaurant with a group of friends, everyone had eaten, the check had been settled, yet no one left. We stayed at the table for another 30 minutes, chatting ...

Dear Miss Manners: When did it become de rigueur to wish every woman you see, for an entire week, a happy Mother’s Day? When I was growing up, Mother’s Day and Father’s Day were days that you did ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I was at a restaurant, seated with seven others. The wine steward came to our table with a bottle of wine, saying that a gentleman at another table would be honored to present this ...