DEAR ABBY: This has been bothering me for many months. I am a senior citizen member of a musical group that presents a major concert during the holiday season.
Many of our members have sons, daughters and grandchildren. Sometimes not one family member will come to the concert. They are all "too busy."
Yet Grandma and Grandpa are expected to attend ALL sports events, glee club performances, pageants, cheerleading contests -- nursery school through college graduations, etc. Believe me, some of those events are boring, too. But Grandma and Grandpa sit through them proudly.
My question to all is, "Is sitting through a concert too much of a sacrifice?" -- HURT IN CONNECTICUT
DEAR HURT: In the interest of family solidarity, it shouldn't be. Everybody needs positive strokes at one time or another.