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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd find a way to return it so she doesn't do it again next time. [/quote]

If you want to be [b]mean to her.[/b] . . [/quote]

how so? [/quote]

All the research shows that one if the best ways to improve your own happiness is two give to others. When you're old, you aren't as frequently in a giving role and are much more likely to be receiving help.  You're not raising children and constantly meeting their demands.  More likely, you need a little help getting around, being taken to the doctor or on errands, maybe just being checked up on to make sure you haven't fallen or left the burner on the stove.  But the human need to be giving and needed doesn't go away as you shed your care giving roles and become more physically needy with age.  Imagine how grandmother felt as she slipped the money into her granddaughter's pocket.  Why would you take that joy from her?  Why would you truncate her ability to experience the full range of human relationships when that's probably already happening, slowly, as she ages? [/quote]

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