DEAR ABBY:

My sister is cheap. She’s also not good at choosing gifts for people. Often, the things she gives are worse than if she’d done nothing at all. An example: She was just here visiting and brought my 4-year-old a toy car she’d picked up at a garage sale (fine, so far), but one of the wheels was broken off. She had the wheel in her purse and said something about gluing it back on, but never did. Once she left, we tried to glue it, but it turned out the toy wasn’t fixable, and my son was very disappointed.

This isn’t the first time this has happened. There’s a history of clothes that are too small, ripped or dirty, toys sent so late the child has long outgrown that stage, etc. It’s not a matter of money. She’s the director of a large law school, so she can buy anything she likes. I

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