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Hello dear. I’m a widow in my late 70s and I’ve just started to see an 84-year-old man. He said last night that he would like for us to have ‘relations’. How do you think I should handle it? — Maureen, Model Farm Road

This is my second attempt at an answer. The lawyer took one look at the first one and said, “I don’t think that’s what she meant by handle it.” My advice is to handle it in private if possible. (The lawyer is still 50/50 on this new answer.) People don’t like to hear old folks talking about sex in public. It puts them right off their food. The bad news is your man friend will be disappointed if you refuse his kind offer of hanky panky. But the good news is that he’s 84 so he’ll probably forget about it in no time.