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October 9, 2021 Activities Generous friend ready to cut Rney's—-Believe It or Not! off assistance Dear Abby DEAR TIED: Start research- had been invited to go to a ball- game with a friend and would ing assertiveness training pro- grams for yourself, because be leaving almost immediately, iter WHALES DEAR ABBY: I have a long- you sorely need more help HAVE distance friend I met online 10 than I can give you in one col- years ago. I took pity on her be- umn. Discuss this with your adding it was an hour's drive away and they would be gone BEST FRIENDS. cause she was nearly destitute, wife for additional emotional all day and returning early and I have been helping her support, because you are right evening, They said we were pay her bills. She’s visited me -- continuing to give your on- welcome to “just hang out” a number of times, and I care line friend financial help WILL and wait for them to return. about her a lot. However, her destroy your marriage. After We said we would head home constant requests for money that, tell this needy woman the same time they left for the are starting to make me un- you won't be sending her more ballgame. I was stunned and comfortable. (She can’t work money, and that you do not felt they were incredibly rude. for health reasons, and there’s want her to contact you until Am I overly sensitive, or was ScientistS THEORIZE THAT ICELAND REPRESENTS a major scarcity of social ser- she has moved closer to her this an acceptable way to treat THE LAST REMNANTS OF ICELANDIA, A TEXAS-SIZED vices or competent care in her sister so she can find the help guests? -- TAKEN ABACK IN A CONTINENT THAT DISAPPEARED BENEATH THE WAVES Rust Belt locality.) she needs. Do not feel guilty COLD STATE OF THE ATLANTIC OCEAN = Ido not want to continue en- for doing this. You have been abling her. Ihave tried suggest- extraordinarily generous to TEN MILLION YEARS AGO. ing she move closer to her sis- have let this go on for a decade. DEAR TAKEN ABACK: I ter, seek better care, etc., but agree that it was rude. Your she doesn’t have the motiva- DEAR ABBY: My husband friends had a choice, to ful- tion. I have a hard time saying and I have good friends who fill their duties as gracious Piscoverep in “no” to people. I got married winter every year in another hosts, or be selfish and go to URUGUAY, THE recently, and I don’t want this state, halfway across the coun- the game. By choosing the lat- LARGEST situation to negatively affect try. For years they asked us to ter, they damaged a longtime SABER-TOOTHED CAT my relationship with my wife. come for a visit. Last winter, friendship. I can see why you SKULL EVER FOUND In my friend’s current emo- we were vacationing about six were “taken aback.” MEASURES hours from where they were tional state, I’m afraid if I end . (GINCHES LONG, my friendship with her, she'll staying. We called and asked | MEANING ITS OWNER never recover from the emo- if they were available and if it Dear Abby is written by Abi- gail Van Buren, also known F WEIGHED ABOUT 960 tional trauma. She even tat- would be convenient for us to POUNDS! tooed my name on her wrist come for three days. They as- as Jeanne Phillips, and was (©2021 Ripley Entertainment ine Diatbuted by Andcows MMe for UE. so she'd see it every time she sured us they had no commit- founded by her mother, Pau- wanted to cut herself, like ments and would love for us to line Phillips. Contact Dear she used to do before we met. come, which we did. Abby at www.DearAbby.com or What should I do? - TIED TO In the early morning of the P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, HER third day, they announced they CA 90069. 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