DEAR ABBY: My niece, “Vicki,” will be 18 in a few days. She works part-time and has started college. Her mom, my sister, lost her husband last year. Vicki did some research on finding herself the right pet because my sister has allergies. With her own money, Vicki purchased a little garter snake.
Unknown to us, Grandma had an incident with a snake
as a child. Grandma has now threatened to never visi…