September 17, 2019 Issue, Page 8 of 10

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Activities Page 8 The Elk City News, Elk City, Oklahoma Tuesday, September 17, 2019 Mom wants to end daughter’s Qiney's_—-Believe It or Not! sleepovers with her boyfriend BEE _ VENOM HOS BEEN USED IN * BEE STING THERAPY"! boyfriend is good enough doctor or health care provid- TO REDUCE Dear Abby for Marta is not your deci- er can refer you to someone NERVE PAIN IN PATIENTS DEAR ABBY: My sion to make -- face it, she’s who can help with these epi- Witte / 40 now -- the talk may clear sodes of depression. MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS 40-year-old daughter, “Mar- the air. If her sex life is im- ta,” and I are widows. I’m portant to her, she may opt DEAR ABBY: My dear retired, and my daughter has to look for another place to friend has a terrible habit a small home-based _busi- live, so don’t be surprised if of ALWAYS talking about ness. She and her three chil she does. her husband, “Bennet.” Ac- dren live with me. Because the cost of living is high in cording to her, he can do our city, living together has everything and knows ev- DEAR ABBY: I had ma- allowed us to pool our re- ‘ago. When I came out from erything. jor surgery eight months In one evening she mentioned his name 19 sources and co-parent my grandkids. under the anesthesia, I was times. (I counted.) For the Marta has had a boyfriend disappointed to find my wife record, Bennet is an average for a year and a half. I have wasn’t there. It turned out guy and nondescript in every not warmed to him. He has she had left the hospi way. Even her kids think he four kids by a previous girl- have lunch with m: is royalty. friend or wife. The youngest stead of eating on: How can I kindly tell her is 18 months old. He works Thave expressed my she is embarrassing herself, at a grocery store, and I just disappointment to her twice, and her friends find it an- don’t see a viable future for and I know she regrets not noying? This has been go- my daughter with him. being there, but every few ing on for years, and it keeps My dilemma: She sneaks months the memory of what getting worse. -- NOT IM- HERE I> A HAND-GRAFTED him in, and he spends the felt like abandonment rises PRESSED IN THE EAST ban ot okEOC NEOUSLY night several nights a week. up and depression sets in, DUCES GOTH TOMATOES‘ANS POTATOES — TIME Marta never asked my per- often for several days. How DEAR NOT IM- THE KETCHUP ANDFRIES PLANT al te Comp utee mission, I guess she as- do I let this go? -- POST- PRESSED: For the re- IAN OF THE YEAR" sumed it is OK. To me it is SURGERY BLUES cord, Bennet must be doing [42ND (IN 1982 7 unseemly and untrustworthy something right or his fam- | 7" wucipleys.com ed ©2019 Ripley Entertainment inc. Ql] 7 ] on both their parts. It sends DEAR P.S.B.: Your wife ily wouldn’t idolize him the the wrong message to my did not abandon you; she way you say they do. grandchildren. My mistake had lunch with your sister. If you think there is any- ossw was not having said anything It was a mistake she regrets. thing you can “kindly” say to her the first time it hap- You were feeling helpless to your dear friend about her ACROSS pened. How should I pro- and vulnerable, which is Knight in Shining Armor 1 Foreshadow PREVIOUS PUZZLE SOLVED ceed now? -- BOTHERED normal. being nondescript in every 5 Extinguish IN CALIFORNIA I’m wondering if your re- way, you are dreaming. Tell 10 Overnnhelmed Z|1/P/SHMIC/E|L|E/BRMA|X/E|D action could be connected to your friend you appreciate 14 Jet engine E/D/E|NBMA/R/O|M|ABBRI/E|N|D DEAR BOTHERED: Pro- the surgery or medications. how proud she is of her hus- noise SILJOJE TIAIX/ 11S SIN/ 1 /T ceed by having an adult con- Please talk about this with band, but you'd like to hear 15 “Ghosts” writer TIEINIAINIT SMMRIE RIEIAID versation with your daughter your doctor. If that doesn’t about some other subjects. 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