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#397: Pretty should be optional.

People are always telling me I could be attractive if I wanted to, and I acknowledge the truth of this – thing is, I don’t want to. I don’t care about my appearance beyond being clean and presentable. I’m not

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#202: My job is making me miserable, but I don’t know how to quit.

Dear Captain I am a lawyer (not in the US). I’ve been practising for just over a year now, after completing my degree and practical training part-time whilst working for my current firm as a secretary and paralegal for the

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Reader Question #12: How do I deal with my boyfriend’s ex-from-hell?

Dear Captain Awkward: So, it’s like this. I met a great guy, and get this, it’s one of THOSE love stories where the girl winds up with the guy she went to school with, it was him all along! Hurrah

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First reader question: Friends With Money

You guys!  An actual question from an actual real-life reader! Dear Captain Awkward: I don’t have a lot of money (like, in debt right now?) but friends keep inviting me to eat out with them.  Sometimes these people are from

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