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Activities 4 - The Elk City News September 30, 2023 Man’s Daughter Refuses To GIPLEY’S Believe It or Not! Contact Grandmother GBirericntere In KENTUCKY WERE iPue UPSIDE-DOWN JELLY I'm at family get-togethers be- south again. She has heart, LIVES LIFE IN REVERSE Dear Abby cause Chloe stopped attending lung, liver and stomach issues DISPATCHED TO HELP A DOG STRANDED ON A WITH ITS any family gatherings years that prevent her from being ac- CLIFF LEDGE BUT BELL ON THE SEAFLOOR DEAR ABBY: My 23-year-old ago. Obviously, something has AND ARMS tive. Most of her time now is ENDED UI IP RESCUING daughter, “Chloe,” lives with driven my daughter to refuse to spent just sleeping or sitting. AN EMI JERGENCY POINTING UPWARD. me and refuses to acknowledge acknowledge her grandmother, MANAGEMENT OFFICIAL her grandmother's emails and and for that matter, the rest of She cannot walk farther than WHOSE OWN RESCUE letters, which are delivered 20 feet without becoming ex- ATTEMPT WENT Awry! our extended and very large hausted, and this is with sup- to our home. It has been four family. How do I break this years since my mother has proverbial ice? -- DAD IN THE plementary oxygen. She has even seen Chloe. My mother MIDDLE IN VIRGINIA other issues as well. is growing increasingly dis- When people ask me how appointed and is grieved by DEAR DAD: Your daughter is my wife is doing, I tend to re- Chloe's apparent distancing. an adult. She, not you, is pre- spond, what I consider to be (We live 20 miles apart.) sumably responsible for her humorously but also pragmati- Over the past year or so, I own behavior. I don’t know cally, “Well, I haven’t buried have calmly asked Chloe to re- what happened four years ago her yet.” But when I do, people ply to her grandmother's kind that caused Chloe to withdraw, become offended. Most of emails and letters. She gen- not only from her grandmoth- them don’t realize we deal with erally hears me out and then er but also the entire clan, and this every day, and I have no turns and walks away. I have neither do you (or you would desire to recount every detail a close and loving relationship have mentioned it). Step out of her problems to satisfy their with my mother. To me, she’s from the middle, Dad, and let curiosity. At the same time, the world’s greatest mom and your daughter deal with the I realize most are asking out grandmother. I also have a fallout from having excommu- warm and loving relationship nicated the entire family. You of genuine concern. Is there a A YouTUBER KNOWN AS WHISTLINDIESEL SUCCESSFULLY PUT with my daughter. There’s little can’t fix this. Only Chloe can better answer? -- WISE GUY IN ([O-FOOT-TALL WAGON WHEELS ON A TESLA AND COULD EVEN FLORIDA that I wouldn’t do to ensure do that. DRIVE THE CAR UPSIDE DOWN! her a safe and comfortable home, a good education and, in DEAR ABBY: Twenty years DEAR WISE GUY: I think so. general, items that aren’t un- ago, my wife was diagnosed Try responding, “She's doing as well as can be expected,” or Crossword reasonable. with a life-threatening health My problem is, | am starting “Her condition hasn't changed; issue. We both rebounded to feel caught in the middle of from it and have had a good I will tell her you asked after ACROSS Current puzzle answers this widening communication run, Over the last three years, her,” and then change the sub- 1 Go by gap. 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