October 23, 2021 Issue, Page 5 of 10

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Tell your mother you ING IN MICHIGAN | CRAWL SPACE AND WAS (BE) peeroRMeD CORRECTIVE divorced when I was 12, and would love to take girls trips goes COLLREAT SURGERY Mom went through a string with her in the future, but not DEAR MOURNING: Ple i 4 of boyfriends -- including an during the first year of your accept my sympathy for your | DVISTIN. 46 YEARS ACTER ON ee I ane tee abusive one. She hasn't dated marriage. anyone seriously in the last Toms, 1 am guestheCiccling [| aft WENT MOSING: UPSiDE-DOWN five years. My father is a pilot. DEAR ABBY: Can you help are raw because people are PAWS. While I was growing up, it was to illuminate people on what hurting, but please realize mostly Mom who raised me. It is proper etiquette after the that because of social media, was the two of us against the passing of a loved one? We re- news travels like wildfire. For world, until I met my husband, cently had a death in our fam- a friend to be told and then to “Eric.” We started dating four ily. As we were trying to say our post the sad news wouldn’t be years ago and were married goodbyes and get in touch with BURNACE CREEK VISITOR } unusual these days. However, CENTER AT DEATH VALLEY, last summer. immediate family, the word got Eric knows Mom and I have out. to head something like that off TONE PARK REACHED always considered ourselves Within an hour of the pass- before it happened, the person to be each other's best friend. ing, the news was all over so- who spilled the beans should He also knows we have taken cial media. We barely had time have asked the friend to keep many trips together. It’s a tra- to react, let alone inform all the news private until all fam- dition Mom was hoping we'd our family members. Many of ily members were personally continue after my wedding. She them learned about it from informed. has recently begun discussing a these posts. Imagine finding ‘That said, since there were vacation, and Eric wants to tag out a loved one passed away along. She, however, wants it from a non-family member's hurt feelings, apologies are in to be a “just us girls” trip. I'm social media posting. It made order. not sure how to handle this. an already painful situation Mom and Eric are the most im- even more so. People were hurt Dear Abby is written by Abi- portant people in my life. Must that they weren’t informed be- gail Van Buren, also known T really choose between one or fore it was plastered all over as Jeanne Phillips, and was the other? Who comes first? the internet, And how do I break the news Could you ALSO point out founded by her mother, Pau- to whoever comes second? ~ that if you are the person who line Phillips. Contact Dear TORN IN ILLINOIS made the post from which Abby at www.DearAbby.com or someone found out about the P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, DEARTORN: Youareanew- death of a family member, CA 90069. 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