DEAR ABBY: I would like to encourage all parents of daughters to teach their girls how to say "no" clearly and with grace. My teenage son asked a girl to the homecoming dance recently. She said, "Oh, I'll have to think about it. I don't know whether I want to go or not." She may have thought she was sparing my son's feelings, but it left him in limbo.

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