A mild correction doesn’t feel like enough.
However, I am frequently asked who in the room I am married to, or whether I am married to my boss. Sometimes other people in the industry will even ask these questions.
Well, I brought my daughter up that way. However, for the last four to five years, she has never volunteered — she says she should be asked! If I want to keep an article or a recipe from one of them, I have been making copies of those pages, but I would prefer to just tear them out .
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