What’s the magic word? (Bite me?)
Lee says: I may be a bitch but I’m polite. I ask for things with a ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ regardless of who it is. I refer to people formally until given permission to use a more familiar name and I maintain these niceties at home as well. I don’t know whether this comes from my parent’s tutelage or my utter terror of the nuns at St. Catherine’s Laboure, in California. I strive to teach my children the same etiquette even in a climate of self entitlement.
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