December 16, 2023 Issue, Page 4 of 10

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Activities 4 - The Elk City News December 16, 2023 Spouse Can No Longer RIPLEY'S Believe It or Not! Tolerate Wife’s Lifestyle you can no longer live the way Paue ROUGH~SKINNED NEWT Dear Abby but she has dived so far down the self-righteous religious things have become, Then offer oF NortH America PRODUCES & CHEMICAL IN ITS SKIN CALLED DEAR ABBY: Is it normal to perspective. She can’t work. her a choice: Get help, or you rabbit hole, she has no other TETRODOTOXIN, A POISON be disgusted by your wife's lack She believes she’s some sort of are leaving. (,2ZOO times vEADLIER of concern about her appear- activist because she forwards THAN CYANIDE, ance and her belongings? My memes on Facebook. It amazes DEAR ABBY: I have been wife drives a $50,000 car that me that she can see neighbors struggling with the loss of my never gets washed and is so who are older than she is have mother, who passed away 10 filled with “stuff” that seldom full-time careers and take care months ago. She was my best can she take even one passen- of themselves and their things friend and was always there ger. and yet still believe she’s nor- for me when I came out as gay. Her side of the bedroom is mal and even judge others. just as bad. She never makes She does a few things for the When I married my husband the bed and can no longer get church, where she can portray in October 2020, she was so to her dresser because there an upstanding image, and it’s happy - she actually gave me are so many clothes piled in really important to her that away. We lost her suddenly, front of it. It's the same down they see her that way. I think and since then my life has felt the hall. In addition to plowing she has a chemical imbalance dark and sad. I'm currently in Gn 202! 4 erst evition things aside or piling them in of some sort and needs help, oF MARY SHELLEY'S. a spare room, her messes take but how do you even start? If therapy, and I have made some (SIS NoveL "FRANKENSTEIN" over the house. it wasn't so complicated, Id progress. But I am stuck won- SoLv FoR $1.17 MILLION! She also doesn’t take care move out. By not doing so, dering, is it normal almost a of herself. She often doesn’t is my complacency making year later to still feel hurt and AGMELLA OLEBAGEA shower for days. Her clothes things worse? - AT MY LIMIT sad that my mother is gone? — B) (A.K.A, THE TOOTHACHE PLANT) are frumpy, and I can no lon- IN TEXAS SAD SON IN INDIANA y CONTAINS & NATURAL LEAF ger count how many pounds COMPOUND THAT, WHEN she keeps adding. It is embar- DEAR LIMIT: Was your wife CHEWED OR RUBBED ON A rassing for me, especially when like this when you were dat- DEAR SON: I am glad you SORE GUM, NUMBS THE she proclaims she “will never ing? In the year or two after asked. I am also glad you are in AREA IN SECONDS. be concerned about her weight your marriage? 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