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please” on the invitations. All that being said, I realize some people will bring a gift anyway. Some of the people I will be inviting tend to give gifts of alcohol, which I do not want.

and have invited both sets of parents to join them there. My wife wants to go. I don’t. Primary reasons I don’t want to go are: 1) we don’t drink, the others do; 2) our interests don’t ...