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Is it OK to read 50 Shades of Grey in public?

Plus, dealing with an advice-dispensing in-law.

> A few days ago, I was visiting my father in the hospital. My sister was there, reading Fifty Shades of Grey (with our father lying asleep a few feet away!). Is it old-fashioned of me to think this is probably not appropriate reading material in this situation, or really any public setting? Am I simply being too prudish?

L.G. / Phoenix

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