April 1, 2020 Issue, Page 8 of 10

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Activities Page 8 The Elk City News, Elk City, Oklahoma Wednesday, April 1, 2020 Long-absent Dad chooses RQine,s—-Believe It or Not’ friend over his own family Dear Abby knows this. Abby, am I being WhenI make a mis- selfish? What do you think I take, like not hanging up my DEAR ABBY: My father should do? -- MORE THAN jacket, I say that Daffy told has been mostly absent from AWKWARD IN ARKAN- me not to do it. She gets Distributed by Andrews MeMeel for UFS, my life. We reconnected SAS mad, and I get a lecture from when I was an adult. I have Daffy about how he isn’t to My JANUARY 1974, “THE SwiM TEAMS DEAR MORE: I don’t blame and he never makes a AT KENYON COLLEGE always had feelings of aban- donment, and because of mistake. I am joking when think you are selfish. You OF GAMBIER OHIO, have good reason to be hurt I blame Daffy, but my wife AND ALLEGHENY COLLEGE this, I have constantly tried IN MEADVILLE, PENNGYLVANA, to build a relationship with and ther disappointed. Your fa- and Daffy don’t find it fun- is remaining true to ny. Am I wrong to make a CONDUCTED A SWIM MEET OVER THE TELEPHONE~ him and allow him to have character, but your friend joke, or should T not blame one with his grandchildren. has betrayed your trust. You Daffy? (Daffy told me to Dad met my friend of may need the help of a li- write this letter.) -- PANDA- 10 years, “Danielle,” two censed therapist to move be- MONIUM OUT WEST months ago when I threw yond this, and that is what I him a birthday party. Since recommend you do. DEAR PANDA-MONI- wr sipleyscom then, he and Danielle have Believe me, you have my UM: It appears there are not begun a relationship on the sympathy. But you can’t one, but three “daffys” in sly. The problem is, Danielle change your father or Dani- your household. If you can’t tells Dad things I confided to her over the years, and he elle. You can, however, “bear” what’s going on, stop change the way you react joking. eat fou Wassf is coming back to me with DuRNG THE ANNUAL to them, and a therapist will PS. You must think I’m KANTO FESTIVAL IN whatever she has told him. help you do that more quick- daffy to believe this letter is AKITA, JAPAN, THE MAIN Dad has been separated ly than you can do it on your legit. EVENT’ IS Beat ¢OF SKILL. WHERE PER! ERS BALANCE BREATHE THROUGH “THEIR: for 14 years, and Danielle own. BamMBoo Pie UP TO SKIN AND CRAWL UP insisted that she wouldn’t DEAR READERS: On DEAR ABBY: When I put YO FEET TALL WITH UP 10 INTO TREES “To HIDE AMONG. date him under those cir- April 1,1 like to share a few my hand on my wife’s knee UG PAPER LANTERNS ATTACHED! THE MOIST, ROTTING Wood OF cumstances, but she did. of the more offbeat letters I at the dinner table last night, Since the start of this, my relationship with my dad is receive. Here are three: she blurted out the name of another man. What do you C ossword even worse, and my long DEAR ABBY: For more make of this? -- CURIOUS friendship with Danielle has than 50 years, my wife has IN CALIFORNIA ACROSS been ruined because I know had a close relationship with 1 Gourmet PREVIOUS PUZZLE SOLVED T can’t trust her. Dad spends a stuffed panda bear she re- DEAR CURIOUS: Unless appetizer all of his time with her and ceived when she was 8 years the name she blurted was 5 Venomous RIE|C\|OINET/B|S|PHL/A/U|D her child now and hasn’t be- old. His name is Daffy, and Alfredo and you were eat- Eurasian snakes A|WIA|RIEBMO!|L|E/O LICIK|Y gun to build a bond with me he sits by our fireplace and ing pasta,I suspect youmay _9 Prefers charges MIE/R|C|! BET/O/E|DEBT|RIE|E or his own grandchildren, pretty much rules the house. havea problem. 13 Unpaid S|IPJA/G/H|E|T/T|1 HEM/E/S|[s which has been the story She makes him “talk” and HAPPY APRIL FOOLS’ 15 Tide type H|U/MMMO|A H/U of my life, and my friend takes him places. 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