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August 25, 2021 Activities Young woman feels pressure Qney's—-Believe It or Not! to be ‘perfect’ | ne een IT'S ILLEGAL TO RIDE A HORSE FASTER THAN PnPne eT arate | | 10 MPH ON CITY STREETS IN THE STATE OF female who struggles with her Our neighbors keep saying we Dear Abby self-image. The images and should “forgive and forget” lives displayed on social media and “get over it” so we can re- DEAR ABBY: My name is are oftentimes not reality. “Lucia,” I am 15 and I live in What you must remember is join them. It’s not that easy. As Santa Catarina, Brazil. My high the importance of being YOUR much as we initially enjoyed school classmates and I saw a AUTHENTIC SELF. Be neat, everyone’s company, it’s no letter from “Needs a Direction,clean and well-groomed in your longer the same. Please advise. Atlanta” online. That's why I'm daily life. Be friendly to others. ~ AT A CROSSROADS IN THE asking for some advice from What are your talents, quali- SOUTH you. ties and goals? Concentrate on Here in my country, there is developing them because they HORSE, A 20-YEAR-OLD a lot of awareness about female not only won't fade with time, DEAR AT A CROSSROADS: BELGIAN NAMED BIG JAKE, power and body positivity, they will continue to improve. Tell your well-meaning (and DIED IN WISCONSIN IN however, we also have a stan- If you do this, others will find forgiving) neighbors you know SUNE 2021, HE STOOD © FEET. IO INCHES TALL dard of beauty that many girls you attractive, and it won't re- they mean well, but that when AND WEIGHED & WHO! can’t or don’t want to follow. quire cosmetic surgery, regard- the person put his hands on 6,500 POUNDS: On social media we see a lot of less of how popular it may be you, you felt disrespected and perfect girls with thousands of in your country. (And mine.) followers on Instagram. I don’t threatened. (I assume “the let myself be shaken by my ap- DEAR ABBY: A large neigh- drunk” never offered you an pearance or my defects, but borhood group, social and apology.) If you prefer not to be sometimesI feel “excluded” be- cause I'm not like the “amazing friendly, has been invaded in that person's company, that girl on social media.” by someone with wander- is your privilege. Be sure your Ilike the way I look, but Ifeel ing hands. I was the recipient neighbors know you would be out of place in relation to what of three incidents. I know of open to socializing with them THE ONLY HOME ON is expected of teenage beauty. other women who have experi- separately, so they won't feel PATIENCE ISLAND, What advice would you give enced the same, yet they won't you are snubbing them. Then RHODE ISLAND, Is A me to avoid feeling inferior to share it with their husbands. direct your energy toward cul- GOO-SQUARE-FOOT, the “amazing girls on social My husband saw it happen and tivating a different group with OFF-THE-GRID media”? -- COPING WITH BE- was on it. He not only protect- whom you feel more comfort- COTTAGE LOCATED AT ING ME ed me, but made sure the of- able. O PATIENCE WAY. fender knew we would not tol- DEAR COPING: Under- stand that outward appear- Dear Abby is written by Abigail erate it. The result? We are now ance is only one aspect of a Van Buren, also known as Jeanne the outcasts of gatherings! ©2021 Ripley Entertainment ine. 8-25 person. Looking like they were Everyone is trying to con- Phillips, and was founded by her stamped out of a cookie cut- vince us to “make up” and ac- mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact ter is a mistake too many girls cept the error of the “drunk.” Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com ssword (and women) make. Please We forgive, yet we have cho- or RO, Box 69440, Los Angeles, know you are far from the only sen not to be in that group. CA 90069. 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