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Activities Tuesday, November 26, 2019 The Elk City News, Elk City, Oklahoma Page 7 Mom weighs when to tell Rines—-Believe It or Not/- her son how he came to be Dear Abby maternal grandparents’ med- cause I wanted to feel some- ical information. BexER REP. thing different for once. Dad ALEXANDRIA OCAGIO - CORTEZ DEAR ABBY: My hus- If he has been learning forced me to stop. WON SECOND PLACE IN THE band and I very much want- anything about biology in 2007 INTEL INTERNATIONAL, ed a child and used an egg school, he should already be I'm sorry this is all jum- SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING FAIR FOR HER RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY, donor to become parents. aware that birds, bees and bled up. I'm not great at MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY NAMED We are eternally grateful to explaining how I feel. How babies come from fertilized AN ASTEROID IN HONOR OF HER— the semi-anonymous donor eggs. Not knowing his lev- do I fix me? -- HIDDEN IN ASTEROID 23238 ocasio-corTez / (we have limited informa- el of emotional maturity, I Submitted By Carl Rennhack, PLAIN SIGHT Masbeth, NY. wu gocomles.com tion on her) and love our can’t put a number on when 11-year-old son more than he should be told. However, anything. We have told him the longer you withhold the DEAR HIDDEN: If it’s that I needed help (for exam- information, the greater the any comfort, many people ple, lots of shots) to become chances are that he will feel talk to themselves. When I pregnant, but have not given you weren't truthful with him more information than him. do it and someone catches that. If you want him to focus me, I explain that I’m talk- Now, I’m wrestling with on “his/your” family, you ing with my “most interest- how much to tell him and must level with him, and ing conversationalist.” when. Part of me says he’s when you do, let him know I am, however, concerned our son ~- period -- and that’s how much you wanted him all he needs to know. The and that you love him with that you are socially iso- other part of me says it’s not all your heart. lated. This is something you Le something I’m ashamed of. should discuss with your HUMMiomi INGBIRD BAKERY Truly I am grateful, yet DEAR ABBY: Lately, I EAMED UP with ‘today’s inexpensive have been feeling down with school counselor. There is a WITH HEINZ? national organization called TO CREATE FIVE SAVORY DNA tests, I worry that a myself. For the last year or CLAUSE IN HIS CUPCAKE FLAVORS: stranger will knock on our two, I have been really inse- Beyond Differences that CONTRACT THAT ALLOWS KETCHUP, TOMATO SOUP, door one day and want con- cure about the way I look or is dedicated to ending so- HIM LEISURE TIME TO BEANS, MAYONNAISE AND PLAY GOLF AT LEAST SALAD CREAM. tact with him. He has a fam- act. cial isolation among young TWICE A WEEK ily who loves him. What do I'm overweight, and com- DURING FILMING ~ we do? We are very private pared to my grandmother, I people. It started a program people. What’s the best way look like I’m pregnant. The called “No One Eats Alone.” Crossw to handle this? I love my son way I act is strange. I talk It’s their most popular pro- and want to be honest, yet to myself when I’m alone. I gram, and schools in all 50 protect him and allow him prefer to keep to myself and ACROSS states participate. It educates 1 Took steps PREVIOUS PUZZLE SOLVED to focus on his/our family. don’t really have any friends. -- MIDWEST MOM At school, I eat lunch alone students on how to make 6 Revise text tangible change in their own 10 Nudges L|U|N/A/R LIE|D ERT HL at my own table (literally). DEAR MOM: Secrets like I suffer from depression schools. 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