February 1, 2020 Issue, Page 7 of 10

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Activities Page 7 The Elk City News, Elk City, Oklahoma Saturday, February 1, 2020 Siblings come home to visit, Kmnevs—_-Believe It or Not! but not with family members Dear Abby DEAR ABBY: My fiancee, “Mia,” lost her dad two years DEAR ABBY: A_ good DEAR ABBY: I have a ago, and her mother recently friend of mine is giving a problem T haven’t seen in announced to the family that baby shower next month your column before. My she is seeing someone. She husband comes from a large has been staying over at his family with siblings spread house, and she is planning to to invite many of her long- FLOAT sell her home and move in 1 far and wide. We live in the WATER ~~ | home state and are happy to with him. Mia is very upset time friends to the shower, about it. but most of them have little accommodate his brothers Her mom is now in the pro- or no history or relationship and sisters (families, dogs) cess of getting rid of her fa- when they come home to ther’s belongings. She feels with her grandson or his visit and ask to stay with us. like her mom i wife, and neither one really ing her wants them to be invited. While it’s never said father from their lives. How openly, it quickly becomes long should her mother have The grandmother, however, clear that the purpose of waited? Is Mia being self- thinks it would be rude not their visit is to do activi- ish? Shouldn’t she be happy to. Your thoughts? -- INVIT- ties with people other than for her mother? -- GOING ED IN THE WEST my husband and me. In the FORWARD IN THE EAST past, we cleared our calen- DEAR INVITED: Some- dars and expected to enter- one should remind your DEAR GOING: I hesitate tain and feed these visitors. to call your fiancee selfish as good friend that the celebra- Tt becomes awkward when much as self-CENT] they unexpectedly leave for Her mother has waited a D. tion is not for her, and that Autor MARK TWAIN Web events with other people -- respectful amount of time. showers aren’t supposed to aT NOW," § “THREE BORDER COLLIES NAMED once a Christmas Eve din- She isn’t erasing her late be hosted . by close relatives On ANTaRcTICA, THE WINTER SUN NEVER RISESSETS IN “You KNOW "' g ner! Advice? -- AVKWARD but by friends of the hon- THE AND NEVER AND " Don'T T iKNOW %r A4 husband from her life or her IN THE MIDWEST children’s as much as go- oree. Not only would your IN THE SUMMER| Cuhwitted Ru Diahavd Athens Lafauttn VA E ing on with hers, which is friend’s contemporaries not DEAR AWKWARD: Do healthy. be offended if they are not not be confrontational, but I wish you had mentioned invited, they would prob- when plans are being made how long she has been see- ably feel relieved. People ACROSS for the next visit, you and ing the man she’s planning your husband should ask on moving in with, because of — Great-Grandma-To- 4. Zen riddle PREVIOUS PUZZLE SOLVED Be’s generation have been 5 Peace officers his relatives which days or it might be pertinent. 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