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Activities 6 - The Elk City News October 29, 2022 ‘Amazing’ Connection With Qweys—-Believe It or Not’ Married Man Destined To Fizzle Brounv (196 oF \ AMERICANS HAVE \ wife don’t have a typical love instead of a trailer home. I'm Dear Abby relationship -- it was an ar- surrounded by more than 12 NEVER LEFT THE ranged marriage. We have the cats, and my wife does a ter- STATE IN DEAR ABBY: Right before most amazing conversations the COVID pandemic began, I and have fallen hard for each rible job of cleaning the litter WHICH THEY WERE was working in D.C. and met a other. boxes, Our house and every- Born! man who lives there. We had I suspect, however, that at thing we own smells terrible. amazing chemistry, but soon the end of the day, I may be afterward I was no longer able hung up ona fairytale that will I have asked her repeatedly to travel. We stayed in touch never happen and there will al- to find homes for some of the for a bit, but out of the blue ways be a reason for him not to cats, and every time it becomes he stopped communicating. I a fight, [love my wife, but Ican leave his marriage. Any advice didn’t think muchof it because (was stuck back in the Mid- is appreciated. - STRUCK BY no longer tolerate the nasty VOLLEYBALL anv west, so there was nowhere for LOVE smell and constantly having BASKETBALL were the relationship to go. DEAR STRUCK: I'm glad to my life affected by these cats. I BOTH INVENTED IN Two years later, out of the offer it: RUN while you still don’t know what to do. Help! — MASSACHUSETTS, blue, he contacted me. By this can. The odds of this working OVER IT IN MINNESOTA time I knew he was married out the way you dream of are with four older children (all low. If you follow my advice, I GeorGe CASTAHO but one over 18). We started won't be reading a letter from DEAR OVER IT: Tell your cat-loving wife that this isn’t WAsHINeion out just talking, then realized you in the next 10 years or so WAS AFRAID OF BEING we could talk to each other bemoaning the end of a re- what you signed on for. She has BURIED ALIVE AND ASKED about anything. We not only lationship that was destined reneged on your agreement. ON HIS DEATHBED knew we had good physical from the beginning to go no- Explain, as calmly as possible, THAT HE NOT chemistry, but suddenly found where. that although you love her, you BE LAID TO we had formed an intellectual and emotional connection un- DEAR ABBY: My wife of 15 are no longer willing to live in a REST UNTIL like anything either of us had years is a cat lover. When we dirty, urine-soaked house and THREE DAYS experienced before. I did feel were first married, she begged it’s you or the cats — and be AFTER HE DIED! guilty but, at the same time, me to allow the cat she had prepared to leave. 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