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    Dear Mariella

    Mar 24, 2020 5 minutes
    PHOTOGRAPH KATE MARTIN

    Despite Mariella Frostrup being agony aunt at The Observer for 20 years, she’s not above having her own dilemma. She’s left her Somerset home for work in London, and is taking tea with me in a private members’ club in Notting Hill, but she’s all of a dither.

    ‘Newsnight has asked me to appear tonight to talk about the menopause,’ she says, toying with her phone. ‘Do I want to be the face of the menopause or not?’ Then, with her famous deep chortle, she adds: ‘And my friend’s booked a really-hard-to get-into restaurant for dinner tonight – and I wouldn’t be able to drink!’

    feels it’s a no-brainer. If anyone is going to represent more than half the population, who will all go through the menopause, we want it to be the woman who’s

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