Your answer to when you will be available should be “You’re… - Judith Martin

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Your answer to when you will be available should be “You’re so kind to invite us, and we wish we could name a date, but it will have to be after we figure out how to manage seeing relatives and friends whom we feel we have neglected.

Judith Martin

Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior · April 17, 2005 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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Judith Martin (September 13, 1938 - ) American advice columnist (under the pseudonym "Miss Manners")

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