Activities October 20 , 2021 Aunt ready to offer advice to childless niece Riney's—-Believe It or Not! DASA ‘iGR st t THE DINING AREA OF A Di by Andrews oor UF. Dear Abby was also a lie. Children do not cause divorces — their parents easiest person for me to talk to. Is there any hope for us MCDONALD'S 2 RESTAURANT IN KRAKOW, f do. or should we go back to being POLAND, IS LOCATED ! ee DEAR ABBY: My niece If you want to maintain a strictly friends? He saidI can INSIDE A GOTHIC t “Jane” is married to “John,” dose relationship with your retract my invitation to visit if CELLAR DATING BACK who doesn’t want children. Be- beloved niece, you should not fore she met John, Jane always only NOT meddle in her mar- I choose. Do I allow him to visit TO THE MIDDLE AGES. loved children. She says he was riage, but also keep your nose and get high, or move on? I just traumatized by the toxic rela- out of their sex life. John may don’t understand the lure of tionship between his parents be unwilling to have a vasec- marijuana. - CONFUSED IN and their subsequent divorce. tomy not because he is self- COLORADO 6) Qn JULY 21, 1983, VOSTOK John’s father told him often ish, but because he is afraid of e RESEARCH STATION IN that he and his siblings caused the pain (the procedure is not DEAR CONFUSED: I’m not (3 ANTARCTICA RECORDED THE the divorce. painless) or because he mis- going to use this forum to de- LOWEST VERIFIED John refuses to have a va- takenly fears it will make him bate the pleasures or the perils TEMPERATURE ON EARTH — sectomy, despite the fact he “less of aman.” But, ultimately, A CHILLY -128.6 DEGREES doesn’t want children, and in- he should take the necessary of marijuana. If your on-again, FAHRENHEIT. sists that Jane use an IUD to steps to prevent a pregnan- off-again boyfriend is unwill- prevent a pregnancy. I thinkit’s cy, because he’s the one who ing or unable to respect your the height of selfishness. Three of my closest friends married men who didn’t want children. wants to remain childless. DEAR ABBY: As were most wishes, recognize that what is a small problem now may take COONle GUTTER on larger proportions as you After age 40, they were all di- kids of the ‘80s, I was raised continue your involvement vorced. The men then went off, to think drugs are bad. Now, with him. Much has been writ- SHARKS married younger women and however, I live in a state where ten about marijuana, both pro all of them have several chil- marijuana is legal. My job and con. If you haven't already dren. My girlfriends express doesn’t allow me to partake, extreme bitterness over being nor do I have any interest in done so, it might benefit you to GROW TO SUST childless. doing it. go online and read some of the ZO INCHES LONG, Abby, I'm afraid Jane will ‘The problem is I invited my current research. After that, if YET THEY WILL RIP meet this same fate. Should I on-again, off-again long-dis- you still feel as strongly as you SMALL, CIRCULAR CHUNKS talk to her about my concerns? tance boyfriend to visit. He do, retract the invitation. OF FLESH OUT OF WHALES, And what do you think about says he has every intention of John’s unwillingness to get a getting high, despite knowing SHARKS AND JUST ABOUT Dear Abby is written by Abi- ANYTHING THEY CAN SINK vasectomy? -- DISAGREEING my stance and discomfort. He gail Van Buren, also known IN DALLAS says marijuana helped him re- as Jeanne Phillips, and was THEIR TEETH INTO. 10-20 cover from surgery and helps DEAR DISAGREEING: What him sleep, and he just wants to founded by her mother, Pau- John’s father did by denying get high. We clearly have two line Phillips. Contact Dear his own part in his divorce and different opinions that will Abby at www.DearAbby.com or placing the blame on his chil- likely never be the same. P.O. 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