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Activities Wednesday, August 12, 2020 The Elk City News, Elk City, Oklahoma Page 7 Poolside overexposure gets Rineys——_-Believe It or Not! disapproval of grandparents Dear Abby to use your pool as often in buried. It will be folded and the future. presented to your mother. DEAR ABBY: My hus- As to the gifts he is re- band and I are in our 60s and DEAR ABBY: My father ceiving from the veterans’ have a swimming pool that is 87 and has stage 4 cancer. groups, suggest that because For years he has lied about our kids and grandkids like your father is now so close being a hospital corpsman in Rickagn cassuRy to visit. Our issue is that our to the end, they be given to granddaughter wears a bath- the Navy during the Korean other vets who can use them. ing suit that shows her bum. War. My parents live in a re- It isn’t a thong, but close to tirement community, and he INVENTED THE FIRST HEART- SHAPED Box Wwe? pacorDy wwe gecomlescom it. talks about being in the war DEAR ABBY: I've been DAVID RUSH OF CHocoLATES OFia Day FO ew sipeyscom She’s 16 and starting her while wearing a Navy base- dating a very sweet girl for DRANK AN ENTIRE LITER OF junior year of high school ball cap. Dad was in the Na- the last four months, and IN 186/. LIME ~viCeE val Reserve (that we know I'm starting to have serious IN JUST 17.29 SECONDS, — this year. It makes my hus- band and me uncomfortable, of) but never saw combat. feelings for her. My chil- and we have told my daugh- Veterans’ groups are al- dren really like her, but she ter as much. Is this one of ways bringing him quilts, sat me down the other night those situations where we food, etc. My mom is horri- and told me she’s trans- either accept it or don’t al- fied and doesn’t know what gender. I’m crushed, and I low her to swim with such to say when he goes on a asuit? rant about having been hit don’t know what to do. This T love my granddaugh- by shrapnel while pulling blows my mind; please give a fellow naval guy out of a VEE NCE BAY resin con ertaener ter and will put up with the me any guidance. I care a lot way it makes us feel if that burning building. He will about this person, and I just is where the line is drawn, pass away soon, and the vet- want to cry. -- CRUSHED VLADISLAV PARASHENKOY TEAMED UP WITH A LOCAL ICE SCULPIER AND BULT A FUNCTIONAL MERCEDES G-CLASS SDV OUT OF ICE BLOCKS.— but it is hard for us to under- erans’ groups will be giving IN THE SOUTH stand. When she brings her Mom a flag he doesn’t de- serve. Mom doesn’t know Distributed by Androws MeMoo! for UFS. © 2020 Ripley Entertainment Inc. 8-12 friends, they dress the same DEAR CRUSHED: You way. What do you advise? what to do. Should we just ignore the antics or say say you are starting to have s UNCOMFORTABLE GRANDPARENTS 2? Please help. -- serious feelings for this girl, s osswo UNCERTAIN IN FLORI- who is not only sweet, but DEAR — GRANDPAR- DA also HONEST, If you are ACROSS ENTS: Because you and worried what others might 1 Kind of lens PREVIOUS PUZZLE SOLVED your spouse are uncomfort- DEAR UNCERTAIN: think if they find out she 5 Subtle emanation able with the amount of What your father has been wasn’t assigned female at _9 Cries audibly S|TIAINEB ERI | AIR F exposure your granddaugh- doing is called “stolen val- pirth, then she’s not the 12 Gluck of opera TIA(L|ERMO/UINIC|E | ter and her friends display or” or “stolen honor,” and gist for you. 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