9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney for June 12, 2006
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Dear Thorax, My grandmother disapproves of my roommate and his friend. Is there anything I can do to reconcile her to my living arrangement and keep the peace? Perplexed in NYC Dear Perplexed, Your grandmother is a control shark. She attracts her prey by withholding approval. Any effort to appease it is like blood in the water. Stay out of it. Common interests will draw combatants together. "So, tell us more about you and Patton's third army...and don't leave anything out."