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I Don’t Like to Share My Food. Is That So Terrible?

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When I was growing up, taking food from another’s plate was okay — if you were a toddler. Once you were 3, you were expected to know it wasn’t cool to swipe a meatball from your sister’s plate, even if you’d finished all of yours and hers looked especially tasty. But grownups with otherwise impeccable table manners eat from my plate all the time. It’s not…