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Dear Abby: Bad Manners Have Spread Throughout Large Family

A retired couple in Indiana say the husband received a Facebook message from an old high-school girlfriend, which he read aloud before declining her unsolicited proposition.
Between them, they have six children, 15 grandchildren and a great-grandchild, but the retired couple says they repeatedly gave gifts without thanks and faced entitlement from two worst offenders.
The message itself was described as extremely risque and ended with an offer to fly out and `meet up`, while the wife says the sender, an old high-school girlfriend, is a marriage counselor making it especially improper.
The wife says she is `itching to give her a piece of my mind` but `I have bitten my tongue on more than one occasion`, and she later did internet sleuthing about the sender.
Abby advised telling the worst offenders plainly that unacknowledged gifts make the giver feel unappreciated and to stop giving if manners don't improve, and she advised choosing words carefully if contacting the husband's old girlfriend.

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