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DEAR ABBY: My boyfriend of three years recently proposed. The issue is he’s the great-nephew of the man who jilted my great-aunt at the altar in the 1970s. My aunt dated his great-uncle for financial reasons, which she has admitted. She tried to ensure he would stay with her by “baby trapping” him and telling him he had to marry her. He agreed until the day arrived — and he didn’t show. This shouldn’t be important to the current situation because it was decades ago, and I barely know my great-aunt. She didn’t even know my fiancé’s name until the most recent family reunion when I mentioned our…