6- The Elk City News Activities February 1, 2023 Teenager Sports Skivvies In GIPLEY’S Believe It or Not! Front Of Strangers tue PINK % INNER CORNER OF YOUR EYE HELPS Dear Abby DEAR ABBY: My friend is always sending me pics of food a small congregation. When home and attend a church with WITH MOVEMENT AND and beverages he thinks look a food pantry opened, I reluc- TEAR DRAINAGE, DEAR ABBY: I don’t know appetizing. The problem is, the tantly began going in to sup- BUT IT'S ACTUALLY what to do about my 18-year- cut of steak he usually eats is plement my food budget. The EVOLUTIONARY old niece. She walks around the cheap and unhealthy-looking. I REMNANTS volunteers are all locals, and house in her underwear. She's try to tell him that better-qual- been doing it for the last two ity meat often has less fat and Iwoman, know many of them. One OF & who also attends my THIRD EYELID. or three years. It wouldn’t mat- cholesterol, but he tunes me ter, I suppose, if it were just church, volunteers there as out. He drinks a lot of wine, in front of immediate family too, and I don’t think that’s well. This woman has adopted a living there, but she also does good either. I’m trying to help smirk anda hard stare in my di- it in front of workmen, the him because I am concerned rection when she sees me now. cleaning women, answering about his health. He is 56 and While I work hard at not caring the door, going out to get the about what people think, this has gained a lot of weight. How can I keep him from a is a tough one. How should I mail, etc. I'm really disgusted. I spoke to my brother (her fa- cardiovascular emergency? — handle her? -- SHAMED IN ther) briefly about it. His re- HEALTHIER EATER NORTH CAROLINA sponse was, “She lives here.” Is there anything I can do or say DEAR HEALTHIER: Your DEAR SHAMED: Handle it to get her to keep herself a lit- friend is an adult. You can’t by discussing it with whoever tle better covered? - MODEST “keep him” from doing any- has organized and manages IN MASSACHUSETTS thing. Because he isn’t open to that food bank. Also mention your helpful suggestions and it to your pastor. If the church DEAR MODEST: Yes, there the photos make you upset, member is behaving as you Some RESEARCHERS is. If her family doesn’t ob- quit looking at them, Accept say she is, she should be told BELIEVE THAT IF THE ASTEROID ject to her walking around the that when he makes the deci- to stop embarrassing you, be- HAD HIT THE EARTH JUST A FEW house in her underwear, that’s sion to change his eating and MINUTES EARLIER OR LATER, IT ASS AVOCADOS cause it is unchristian and un- WOULD HAVE HT DEEP OCEAN their prerogative. But “some- drinking habits, the motiva- called-for. WATERS, AND THE DINOGAURS ARE DESCENDANTS one” should remind your niece tion has to come from within MIGHT HAVE SURVIVED. FROM THE SAME TREE! that doing it in front of work- (or from his doctor). You may men, household staff and the be able to lead by example and Dear Abby is written by Ab- mail carrier is DISRESPECT- convince him to exercise with igail Van Buren, also known FUL TO THEM. How their you. If you do, be sure to start as Jeanne Phillips, and was Crossw neighbors feel about it is any- SLOWLY. founded by her mother, Pau- one’s guess, but if she’s built line Phillips. Contact Dear like Jennifer Lopez or one of DEAR ABBY: I live in a very Abby at www.DearAbby.com or ACROSS the Kardashians, they may be small town where everybody P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, 1 Laissez — enjoying the view. knows everything. I own my CA 90069. 6 Weeds the SNE] BOE BEE garden MINERIE! 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