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December 9, 2020 Activities Boyfriend shows true colors Rine,y's_—_-Believe It or Not/ after lung cancer diagnosis ¢ OMG = WHAT = poy com Dear Abby all. I DO think he has been do- ing this all these years. reached the point that I don’t want to be around any of my DEAR ABBY: I need your Now it is time to marshal family anymore because they opinion. I have been with the your friends and family and let defend him on everything, de- them know what's going on. spite the facts. What should I same guy for 27 years. We never married because we If you have been a caring and do? I seem to be the only per- supportive friend or relative, son trying to reconcile the were both married before, and I wasn't into doing it again. relationship and fix/reunite they should be supportive dur- I have stuck by him through ing this challenging time. The my family. - SAD SIBLING IN American Cancer Society has NEW JERSEY sickness, hard times and what- ZEBRAS support groups for people with ever else. cancer if you need someone to Four months ago I was diag- talk to. Its website is cancer. DEAR SIBLING: I find it hard nosed with small cell lung can- org, Please know you are in my to believe that your family SyRIPES BePeL | cer. I stopped by his house this would side with a sibling who thoughts and prayers for both week to pick up a rug scrubber a spiritual and physical recov- declares he “hates” his brother and walked in on him having ery. sex with some woman. I feel and refuses attempts to rec- oncile. It’s important for your \Negers. | hurt, angry, mad, sad. It’s like, mental health that you sepa- CHE FIRST RECORDED USE oF OMG DEAR ABBY: My family is DATES BACK “TO WORLD WARK I, WHY? Do you think he has getting torn apart by my older rate emotionally from your IN A LETTER To WINSTON CHURCHILL. been doing this and he just got brother's issue with me. It has brother. By that I mean dial caught or what? become worse over the years, I didn’t say anything. I just even after his marriage. back the resentment, live your life with your wife and child INGEKE MOUSE left. He called me later and He seems to be upset with and stop obsessing about what WAS ALMOST NAMED said it was over between us how my life is progressing, and your brother does. That he lit- because I’m sick and “can’t to upset me, he has been copy- erally follows in your footsteps “MORTIMER” 129 do anything.” I'm in shock. ing everything I do. He got en- shows he either admires the Distributed by Andrews MeMeel for UFS. ‘©2020 Ripley Entertainment inc. I don’t know what to think. gaged and married around the choices you make, or that he I have always been there for same time I did. He also got a has no imagination of his own. him. So why, now that I’m sick dog right after I did, bought a Neither of these should be a and I need him the most, has car right after me and decided problem for YOU. he turned his back on me? — he wanted to start a family ACROSS BLINDSIDED IN OHIO as soon as my wife and I an- Dear Abby is written by Abi- 1 Croc relative nounced we are having a baby. gail Van Buren, also known 6 Slangy lady Ell —|M}< |< | |O|m Ww)o|O|Z i iw /Z/F O}—|0|\o Re |oc jw} OC LU) | Lu} Lu} 2} | DEAR BLINDSIDED: Iam so, as Jeanne Phillips, and was My parents constantly make 10 Pipe fittings so sorry that you had to find excuses about why his actions founded by her mother, Pau- 14 1836 battle site gla out this way -- when the chips are justified. I no longer know line Phillips. Contact Dear 15 Romantic deity LIM are down — that the man you what to do. 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