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Dear Abby column on estranged family and ending a toxic friendship
A mother in New Jersey seeks guidance as her 42 year old daughter Brianna cuts contact and withholds access to a granddaughter. Abby urges focusing on self care, offering gifts only if granddaughter remains open in time, and suggests volunteering to ease pain. The second reader asks how to end a manipulative friendship. Abby recommends a direct confrontation or gradual distancing, noting the editor’s note about Dear Abby’s authorship.
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