April 22, 2020 Issue, Page 7 of 20

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Activities ‘Wednesday, April 22, 2020 The Elk City News, Elk City, Oklahoma Page 7 Brain injury alters friend’s Qines——-Believe It or Not/- personality in negative ways Dear Abby tions have made people so talk with a doctor about it. uneasy they have distanced It’s ashame because in many DEAR ABBY: “Stella” themselves. Tell her that her cases there is help for it. and I have been close friends comments to your boyfriend Because you have reached for 25 years. Two years ago, made him uncomfortable, the end of your tether, dis- she was in a car accident and and you need them to stop. cuss your feelings with him suffered a traumatic brain I can’t predict how she as openly as you have with The Wheelbarrow WAS DEVELOPED IN CHINA Qu MARCH 2020, POLICE IN SPAIN, injury. She has since recov- will react, but you may get me. If you do, it may jolt AS EARLY AS RESPONDED TO NUMEROUS KETORTS ered and returned to work. through to her. If not, she him into doing something 100 Bc — OF A LION ON “THE LOOSE, MORE “THAN 1,000 YEARS BuT IT TURNED OuT “To BE AN Stella’s personality has may end her friendship with for himself that he should BEFORE THE EUROPEANS. UNUSUALLY GROOMED Do, changed a lot since the acci- you, and you can retain your have done a decade ago. dent. Her language and cloth- sanity. ing are inappropriate. At 65 years old, her wardrobe now DEAR ABBY: My moth- DEAR ABBY: My signifi- er-in-law passed away a year cant other, “Bob,” and I have ago. Since then, my husband ee consists of miniskirts, spike heels, over-the-knee lace-up been together for 30 years and his sister have been let- boots, halter tops, etc. She (never married). The past ting my father-in-law stay says suggestive things to my 10 years of our relationship with each of us on different boyfriend in front of me. He have not been so good in the nights. He’s with us every no longer wants to be around bedroom. Friday and Tuesday and with her. Most of Stella’s friends Bob has ED and refuses my husband’s sister Thurs- have distanced themselves, to see a professional about day, Saturday and Sunday. and her husband has moved it. He is well aware of how My father-in-law is out of their home. unfair it is to me because healthy and capable of do- MORE THAN ZO YEARS IN PHETCHABURL THAILAND, I remember how close we my sex drive is still in full ing everything for himself. ROADSIDE VENDOR SILA SUTHARAT HAS "GRILLE D" CHICKEN AND PoRK WT once were, and I don’t want swing. Would it be wrong to I am getting SO tired of this 4000 MIRRORS ANDTHE POWER OF THE SUN- AWD IT ONLY TAKES I2 MINUTES.“ to end the friendship, but I tell him that since he doesn’t arrangement! It is cramping don’t think I can tolerate be- want to seek help for his my life in a big way. What Crossword ing around her. How can I problem, I am going to find do I do? -- RUINING MY help her and keep my sanity? a “friend with benefits”? LIFE IN THE SOUTH -- TOO MUCH CHANGE I have reached the point ACROSS 1 Medicinal PREVIOUS PUZZLE SOLVED IN TEXAS where I want to leave him. DEAR RUINING: Start If he would get help for his making plans for your- 5 Suggestions intment GLU] MIC|H|AM|P ATV] 1 [D DEAR TOO MUCH: Be problem, our relationship self on Friday and Tuesday and queries RIO|TIERBRIU/R/A/LBMIC/AIFIE gentle with Stella because would improve, and I would nights so you will feel less 10 Cornstarch AILIE|X LINJF/RIABBRI I FIE her change may be beyond be willing to stay. -- DE- encroached-upon. And_in- brand FIA(S|T/E|S|T MSY |N/O|N[Y[M her control. Help her by trying to talk frankly with PRIVED IN OHIO troduce your father-in-law to some ladies his age -- pro- a MU KIE Pius 15 Employee's A|C|T|RIE|S|SHBLIE|B/A|N/O|N her. Explain how much her DEAR DEPRIVED: Bob viding he is willing. 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