November 5, 2019 Issue, Page 8 of 10

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Activities Page 8 The Elk City News, Elk City, Oklahoma Tuesday, November 5, 2019 Wife can’t forgive herself for Rineys—-Believe It or Not’ her own costly error Dear Abby so I recognize the symptoms filling prophecy. Start there. (I have to force myself to DEAR ABBY: I am a perform personal hygiene, DEAR ABBY: I have a woman in my 50s who has I sleep whenever I’m not at grocery store etiquette ques- been the family “screw-up” work, etc.). tion. I become really offend- Abby, I don’t know what to do anymore. There are ed when I’m unloading my since I was a teenager. Eigh- days when I don’t know groceries onto the conveyor teen months ago, I screwed up in the worst way pos- sible. Without my husband's why I bother continuing on. belt at checkout and -- be- I feel like I don’t deserve to fore I’m finished -- another knowledge, I started robbing live after what I did to my shopper comes up behind me Peter to pay Paul with the bills. The end result: [ lost us husband. There is no way I and begins unloading hers. It will ever be able to give him leaves me not enough room everything (home, vehicle, back everything I caused etc.). to finish unloading mine! I him to lose, and that knowl- He is a good man, and he edge haunts me every min- think it’s rude, and it baffles deserved so much better than ute of every day. How does me that so many people do what I put him through. He someone learn to forgive it. Is it impolite to tell them THE wr“U" AS AN ABBREVIATION FOR “You" Whe FIRST USED By has said he forgives me for themselves? -- FOREVER they are being rude? Or is SHAKESPEARE .— everything, but my problem THE SCREW-UP it dangerous these days? F(ast OF Pears is that I can’t forgive myself. Scenes CAN LOCATE COLONIES -- GOING AS FAST AS I OF PENGUINS FROM SPACE JUST BY We are divorcing now, and DEAR FOREVER: There CAN LOOKING FOR DARK ICE PATCHES OF I’mstruggling to live mylife CONTAINS. PENGUIN PooP.— are options available for in- g ENOUGH ENERGY without the man I love (and dividuals who have little DEAR GOING: It A TO TOAST £ 160,000 Pieces who still loves me). The di- or no money and need help wouldn’t be impolite or : OF BREAD.- vorce was pushed-for right with their mental health. I : i dangerous to tell the person after we lost everything. His researched what might be adult son paid for it, so he available in your community behind you that you haven't l IDO ™ = Distributed by Andrews MeMee! for UFS, ©2019 Ripley Entertainment ine. | 1-9 hasn’t dropped it. He says he and found there is a univer- finished unloading your pur- doesn’t want to make waves sity with a department of chases and to please stop. because he’s livit psychological services. 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