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Originally posted by evenodds
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I receive e-mails from a subscription service. Some (not all) of these e-mail updates contain the heading "please feel free to forward this e-mail to friends or associates." Should I feel free to post them here (with appropriate citations & links to the originating site)? I've figured that, with that lead in, they would probably just be grateful for the wider dissemination of what is essentially teaser-bait for new subscribers.
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Originally posted by evenoddsA couple of months ago, the OddMan and I saved my neighbor's life.
At this point, we are at a loss to move beyond this obviously important moment in our neighbor's life to resume the pleasant but unintrusive neighborliness we had before.
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Seriously, write to miss manners. You can e-mail her:
http://womencentral.msn.com/firstper...issmanners.asp . I don't think I've seen Miss Manners tackle that one before, and I'll bet she'd love to.
My gut reaction is that, with time, the awe will rub off and things will settle down of their own accord, and you should just avoid exacerbating it by involving yourself more (frequently checking on the neighbor's health, or hanging about to help out, more than you otherwise would, etc.). And I'd try to avoid the sorts of social situations that create reciprocal obligations (dinner is the key one, but also other evening parties, theater, etc. - though of course all of this is probably seen as a payment of a reciprocal obligation on your neighbor's part).
Similarly, I wouldn't worry about suddenly being sucked into your neighbor's circle just because of the introductions. Those people probably weren't dying to meet you, either, but couldn't figure out how to politely refuse the introduction without appearing not to value the neighbor's survival. If invitations come, just say no, thank you, to avoid future entanglement.
