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I read various advice columns from time to time.
Such as this one:
I find them often entertaining and, on occasion, enlightening.
Almost all are from the disgruntled.
The gruntled?
Not so much.
The gruntled don’t bother writing.
It seems they have better things to do.
And what they write might make for boring reading.
Among them are those who have been prudent, have made wise decisions, gotten their ducks in a row.
Although I suspect many could not tell a decoy from the real thing.
One common thread, ranging from siblings to parents, from grandparents to step siblings and step children to step parents, from erstwhile friends and cohabitants seems to be about finances and money.
Readers who write in have questions and are seeking answers from a disinterested third party .
Maybe they intuitively know what to do, but want affirmation.
They may know once their hand closes around the cookie in the cookie jar, it may be too large to exit the jar, but they want someone else to agree with them and tell them not to put their hand into the jar in the first place.
