April 17, 2021 Issue, Page 6 of 8

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6 Legals April 17, 2021 Distance tests strenth of mili- tary couple’s engagement can’t. ship with Rita, she sometimes Dear Abby What is going on isn’t fair to comes to dinner with us on the man you are engaged to. girls’ nights and is involved in DEAR ABBY: I’ve been in a If he knew, I’m sure he would our group chats. long-distance relationship for agree. Do not chalk this up to Is there a discreet way to end 2 1/2 years. We are now en- “when I’m not with the man I this business/client relation- gaged, but haven’t set a date love, I love the one I’m with.” ship without screwing up my for our wedding. Be honest about what you re- friendship with my high school We are both in the military, ally want, follow through, and pal? I’m tired of dealing with and we have maintained this you won’t be writing me again relationship well. But there her, but I don’t know how to years from now asking what to was a time before we dated do. get out. -- CUTTING HER OUT that I was dating someone else. I ended that relationship, but DEAR ABBY: I am a hairstyl- DEAR CUTTING: Handle haven’t healed from it because ist with a client who was re- this by telling Rita what you I see him at work often, and I ferred to me by a mutual friend, have written to me and ex- still have feelings for him. “Rita,” from high school. Rita plaining that the two of them He lives in my neighbor- is also a client, and we go back may be friends, but you no lon- hood, and I enjoy talking to 20-plus years. The client, who’s ger want the woman as a client. him. I like the attention he close friends with Rita, is picky Then sweetly tell the woman gives me, and I’m attracted to and a terrible tipper. the next time she calls that him. I blame the geographical She box colors her hair at your professional relationship distance from my fiance for home, but comes to me for doesn’t seem to be a good fit this. I want someone close, her haircuts. I offer her 10% because she has voiced dissat- and I would love for it to be the off of her haircut for prebook- isfaction with your work. Then person I am engaged to, but ing, so she gets a $35 service offer to refer her to someone although I try to abstain from for $31.50. She usually tips else. Not every client is a good this other person, I find myself me $3.50. She keeps asking me fit and vice versa. It’s a fact of drawn to him. -- CAUGHT BE- to sell her hair products at a business life. TWEEN TWO wholesale cost, which I do for my family and for Rita, but no DEAR CAUGHT: You say you one else. Dear Abby is written by Abi- have been together with your Cutting her hair is a chore, gail Van Buren, also known absent fiance for 2 1/2 years, because she’s never completely as Jeanne Phillips, and was but are still carrying on an happy with the service and has founded by her mother, Pau- emotional affair with the man asked to come back for free re- line Phillips. Contact Dear you broke up with. When you touching. If she were anyone Abby at www.DearAbby.com or say you are “trying to abstain” else, I’d part ways with her, but P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, from this person, clearly you because of her close relation- CA 90069. Crossword Current puzzle answers Get Fuzzy Garfield Dilbert Drabble Dailies Pearls Before Swine