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Dear Prudence: liberating lessons from Slate.com’s beloved advice column
Dear Prudence: liberating lessons from Slate.com’s beloved advice column
Dear Prudence: liberating lessons from Slate.com’s beloved advice column
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Collected wisdom from the internet’s best-loved advice columnist.

I recently learned from one of my co-workers that my boss gathered everyone together after I was hired and told them that I was nonbinary and used they/them pronouns, which isn’t true — I’d been very clear that I’m a trans man who uses male pronouns. How should I handle this?

My husband keeps leaving his toenail clippings around the house. I’ve started slipping them into his coffee cup. Is there a better solution?

I think I’m in love with my brother’s wife. What should I do?

A collection of the weirdest and wildest questions sent to Slate’s longtime agony aunt, internet darling Daniel M. Lavery, whose sympathetic, thoughtful, good-humoured advice is read by millions.

Featuring new material as well as fan favourites, this is a must-have for ‘Dear Prudence’ fans and a dose of good sense, compassion, and understanding in an increasingly fractured world.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateMay 2, 2023
ISBN9781922586513
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Daniel M. Lavery

Daniel M. Lavery is a co-founder of The Toast and the author of Texts From Jane Eyre, The Merry Spinster, and Something That May Shock and Discredit You. Lavery wrote Slate’s Dear Prudence column from 2016 to 2021. He writes an email newsletter at Substack called ‘The Chatner’.

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