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She lives next to my wife and me and loves to go on walks — but she strolls around giving away stuff. If somebody admires something she’s wearing — like one of the bracelets on her arm — she’ll just take it off and give it to them. She tells them not to worry as she got the item at a thrift shop — and she did.
It’s not the money my wife and I are worried about, as she’s well set up from her second husband who died a few years ago. I’m just worried she’s going to get hurt because she must look like such a pushover. She says that’s nonsense and sees it as her own little charity, making people smile to have something nice.
I suggested she just donate money to a charity, but she turned it around and said she was worried about me because I used to be kind and generous the way she brought me up. She said I was too fancy now because of my lifestyle (nice house, two cars) and didn’t even have a dog to look after. Now I really don’t know what to say.
I just don’t want her putting herself in harm�.