July 24, 2021 Issue, Page 5 of 8

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5 July 24, 2021 Activities Roomates get snippy over canine care self to be put in one. but what she’s doing is obvi- Dear Abby ous. DEAR ABBY: I have never DEAR ABBY: My husband When I ask her to stop, she told anyone about this. I was and I are newlyweds and share molested by my pastor when says she can’t stand having an apartment with another I was 8, and again when I was food in her teeth. I tell her to couple because we ran into fi- 14. I see a doctor because of de- go into the restroom or do it nancial difficulties, and this pression and PTSD. My doctor was our only option. The prob- outside, but she does neither doesn’t know, and I don’t want lem is the other couple has two and continues to floss. I’m my family to know. I don’t even dogs they expect us to take know if the pastor is still alive. hoping she’ll listen to you and care of while they’re at work. Should I tell my doctor or just that you will back me up. -- EL- My husband and I get home let it go? I have heard about LEN IN THE USA two hours earlier than they do priests doing this, but I was in the evening, and they have going to a Pentecostal church. become accustomed to our -- MALE READER IN KEN- DEAR ELLEN: I agree that generosity in occasionally tak- TUCKY flossing one’s teeth in public is ing the dogs out and walking unsightly and something that them. They now expect us to DEAR MALE READER: It is should be done in private. If it do it every day, and get angry very important for your men- and nasty if we don’t. Please tal health that you tell your becomes necessary, it should help. -- IN THE DOGHOUSE doctor everything you have be done in the restroom. (Need IN GEORGIA disclosed to me, because what I add that if there is mouth- happened to you is likely the rinsing, the sink should be DEAR IN THE DOGHOUSE: cause of your depression and You and your roommates ap- cleaned afterward and any de- PTSD. Do this, not only for pear to have a communication yourself, but also because it tritus stuck to the mirror re- problem. Speak up. Tell them may help other young people moved?) you dislike their palming off who belong to that church and the responsibility for walking who also may have been mo- Dear Abby is written by Abi- their animals and you won’t be lested by that predator. doing it anymore. Then remind gail Van Buren, also known them that while you were will- DEAR ABBY: Is it appropri- as Jeanne Phillips, and was ing to do an occasional favor, ate to use dental floss in pub- founded by her mother, Pau- you do not appreciate their at- lic? When my mom eats out, line Phillips. Contact Dear titude of entitlement. You are she uses dental floss while she Abby at www.DearAbby.com or not their built-in dog walkers. is still at the table or while You only have to occupy the walking out of the restaurant. P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, Crossword “doghouse” if you allow your- She thinks she’s being discreet, CA 90069. Current puzzle answers Get Fuzzy Drabble Dailies Pearls Before Swine Garfield Dilbert