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Dear Prudence: The “Time Is Not an Apology” Edition

Why do people feel entitled to be rude to their friends?

Prudie and her guest, Lisa McIntire, talk about when you should rock the boat, why people feel entitled to be rude to their friends, and how time passing does not equal an apology. Mallory offers more thoughts on human resources departments and the hellscape that is capitalism, with apologies to the robber barons among her listeners.

And then, questions: From the parent of an 18-year-old phone sex operator, from a woman whose friend keeps setting her up on dates she doesn’t want to go on, and from a woman whose husband no longer wants to be intimate with her. Finally: the case for plausible-deniability ashtrays.

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