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January 31, 2024 Activi 1eS ‘The Elk City News - 5 Wife Finds It Difficult To GIPLEY’S Believe It or Not! Accept Husband’s Past tue RESURRECTION PLANT CAN SURVIVE YEARS OF portant line in your letter as I finally told my daughter- DROUGHT AND NEARLY Dear Abby far as I am concerned is this in-law I felt it was negligence COMPLETE DEHYDRATION, one: “I've been questioning to not take the child to a pe- COMING BACK TO LIFE AFTER DEAR ABBY: After 17 years a lot about this marriage.” of marriage, I learned, to my ‘The first item on your agenda diatrician. The other grand- EXPOSURE TO MOISTURE! dismay, that when he was 22, should be to make an appoint- mother feels the same way I my husband had a long-term ment with a licensed marriage do. Now I'm being “canceled” relationship with a 16-year- and family therapist so you for finally expressing how I old. He insisted that she had feel. I am disconsolate with and your husband can start lied about her age and told working on what’s wrong with the thought that they would him she was 20. your relationship. actually do that to me. I did But even after finding out His feelings for that girl apologize for my choice of her true age, he went back were sincere. He would have words and the way I said them. to her. Her mother was OK married her had she not What else can I do to make Since ZOU, Catia LatTOUF with it, as well as other fami- cheated on him. If he has been things right again? My son is DE ARIDA HAS BEEN USING HER ly members who all knew she a faithful and caring husband J APARTMENT IN Mexico City no help. He doesn’t go against was underage. It makes me since your marriage, it's time AS A HOSPITAL AND sick to my stomach. They en- to forgive him for his youthful his wife for any reason. — SANCTUARY FOR INSURED AND gaged in sexual activity when indiscretion, which was en- HEARTBROKEN NANA IN ABANDONED HUMMINGBIRDS! she was underage. They were couraged by the girl’s family. FLORIDA even engaged until she al- legedly cheated. DEAR ABBY: My son and DEAR NANA: If I read your Tm livid because he tried daughter-in-law are in their letter correctly, you stated that Qu 1097, to say he TOLD me she was early 30s. They have a 5-year- your grandchild has had no Francis ALYs PUSHED underage, but he never did. old child who hasn’t seen a vaccinations. Nothing to pre- & BLOCK OF ICE THROUGH I would never have dated or doctor since infancy. They opt- vent whooping cough, diph- Mexico City UNTIL IT married someone who know- ed not to vaccinate. Although MELTED AS PART OF A theria, measles, chickenpox ingly had sex with an und- my husband and I do not agree or polio. To me, that describes PIECE OF PERFORMANCE ART. eraged individual. I've been with it, we keep our mouths GROSS negligence. Because “THE MELTING PROCESS. questioning a lot about this shut. TOOK 9 HouRS! your henpecked son refuses to marriage, but this sent me Our precious granddaugh- step in, you may have to accept e revouesnyansews 1-31 Mia for UES. nmagoconcncom mitbeyscom sates~—Rbiny Erode ne over the top. Am I overreact- ter has been sick with a severe ing because he “was young and cough and fever on and off for there is nothing you or the dumb” and “did something close to two months. Although other grandmother can do to Crossword stupid and never did it again,” they have health insurance, “make things right again.” But as he puts it? -- CAN’T GET they refuse to take her to a the two of you COULD contact OVERIT doctor. 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