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Dear Prudence,

I wouldn’t say that my sister “Kim” and I are close, but she does call me like clockwork every three months or so to talk to me for three hours straight about her woes. I have a lot of patience for these calls actually and do feel like I can handle them. But I feel like I’m holding back some very crucial feedback for Kim that involves our family, and also her kids.

Kim is an all-talk, no action kind of person. She talks a big game about the kind of person she is and what she wants out of life, but then she just kind of lets life happen to her. She is painfully unaware of other people’s interests and needs,

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