March 26, 2019 Issue, Page 7 of 10

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Activities Son feels mother’s fineys-Believe itor Not!fo rejection after revealing that he is gay tion with your mother. Before kidnap them. I realize doctors you do, I’m advising you to don’t get paid enough for contact an organization called their time by Medicare, but PFLAG. PFLAG helps to it sure would help us keep DEAR ABBY: Iove my build bridges of understand- our elders healthy. -- NOTE mother, but our relationship ‘Distibuod by Andrews Meo for UFS, ing between families and TAKER IN GEORGIA has been awkward since I their LGBTQ members. You came out to her when I was can find it by going online to 13, After I told her I was gay, pflag.org. If your concern is DEAR NOTE TAKER: May she grew more and more that your mother’s position Ioffer a suggestion that might distant. She went into full may force you to end your prove helpful? When you grandma mode for my sister relationship with her, prepare take your parents for doc- and her sons and, in my eyes, in advance by making sure tors’ visits, record what you neglected me. you have a loving support are told on your cellphone (in PERSON TO PROPOSE THE IDEA OF JOHN WILKINS Wis THE ARST enw She was seldom home, system around you. notes/memos). That way, you Wine A LIREGUARDIN then ecteo. | SpASe “IRANEL AND EXPERIMENTED IN and when she was, we would can replay the doctors’ words AND SAVED 77 LIVES. MAKING FLYING MACHINES IN THE 1660s. argue about everything. It got DEAR ABBY: I am the verbatim regarding any so bad that I left and moved in caregiver for my 88-year-old with my aunt, who was like a mom and 89-year-old dad. It diagnoses, instructions, etc. to | COURT+ MABTIALS mom to me. My sister told me has its challenges. It would your parents as necessary. 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