Off The Hook
May 26, 2017

More about men

By Melanie Behrens

Last week we discussed “the rules” that some men live by. That caused a lot of reaction from the men who read this column, so I thought I would continue, since I’m on a roll.
In case you didn’t know, men and women are really different. As actress Katharine Hepburn once said, “Sometimes I wo...

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