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Dear Uncle Bert and Auntie Gert

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Dear Uncle Bert and Auntie Gert
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Wed, 20/01/2021 - 04:07

Art Lover writes:

I'm a long time reader and a first time writer. I'm desperate. I like art. A lot. I don't like sports. At all. I like science but I'm rubbish at it. I don't like history, geography and English Lit but I'm good at them. I'm good at English grammar and Composition and I quite like that. I'm rubbish at maths and I don't like it.

My boss keeps writing stories about me

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Dear Uncle Bert and Auntie Gert
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Tue, 21/07/2020 - 05:54

Hi, Bert and Gert.

I have a really strange problem. My boss thinks that posting long messages on LinkedIn makes him popular and it's true, they get lots of likes and shares.

But the stories he write aren't really his stories: they are about me. What should I do?

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Date three. I expected a shag: he wanted to marry me.

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Fri, 19/05/2017 - 09:09

It's a kind of rule, isn't it? Date one - no touching, date two a peck on the cheek and maybe a quick snog and date three yippeeeeeee!

So what went wrong?

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"My mother insists I go on holiday with her and her new boyfriend. I don't want to go"

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Wed, 17/05/2017 - 00:01

My mother met a man on an internet dating site and just a few weeks later he travelled from Portugal to come to see her in Birmingham, England. He arrived for the weekend and two years later he's still here. I don't like him and I don't trust him. We aren't rich but he was unemployed in Portugal and he's not worked all the time he's been in the UK.

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Dear Uncle Bert and Auntie Gert: to migrate or not to migrate

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Mon, 01/05/2017 - 14:45

My husband and I are in our mid 40s with two children. We moved from one country to another for economic reasons and after some years my husband thought it would be better for our children to grow up in a bigger, more diverse country. So I gave up my well paid job and we moved. But neither of us can find work in our new country. Our resources are dwindling. I don't know what to do.

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Real love is for ever, not just for Leap Year

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It's four years since author Jefferson Galt posted this article to his blog. It bears repeating.

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I'm at home, somewhere in the French countryside.

Today's a free day! I don't mean it's a day with nothing to do (although, actually, that's pretty much the plan) I mean it's a day that is normally left out of calculations.

29 February 2012. A bonus day every four years.

And a day that some cultures claim has special meaning.

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