Mamas, grandmas, nanas, your 400 tias and most particularly your girlfriends are in this with you cradle-to-grave.

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Tired of attending wedding after wedding as your girlfriends marry their college sweethearts one by one by one?

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So why not pick out a financial book ( www.barbarastanny.com for my recommendations), pick up the phone and invite your girlfriends over for a discussion (wine optional)?

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"They were talking about life -- jobs, husbands, their kids, traveling, getting to know each other like they were your girlfriends sitting at your kitchen table having coffee, " she said.

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Even your little brothers or sisters in college may have girlfriends and boyfriends, so you can imagine the pressure and frustration.

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Younger guys' girlfriends tell them, 'go get a manicure and cut your green toenails.

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No overstaffing, no girlfriends on the payroll as 'sales secretaries' or 'reservations managers, ' no letting your salaried g.m. use it as a jobs program for her relatives or 'professional colleagues, ' no overloading the hotel with extra salaried management-level employees so we'll have bench strength waiting in the wings if we sign another hotel.

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