Activities November 27, 2021 Romance with prison inmate Qwmeys—-Believe It or Not’ evolves into love triangle GIOVE OVER, LASSIE! AETER AN youshould “do” is reassess your 83-YEAR-OLD WOMAN Dear Abby relationship with this two- nights. He’s actively engaged in my kids’ lives, and we're talk- FELL INTO A RAVINE IN timing felon. His ex-girlfriend ing about marriage. Because may indeed be maneuvering of our age difference, this in- CORNWALL, ENGLAND, DEAR ABBY: I am a 42-year- old mother of three who has to get you out of the picture, HER CAT, PIRAN, BEGAN been in a relationship with a and my advice to you, which I man for almost six years. He is sincerely hope you will follow, cludes discussing wills, estate planning and the hurdles that MEOWING LOUDLY, incarcerated. We started out as is to LET HER DO IT. You may come with retirement and rais- ALERTING RESCUERS friends. Things were great until have started out as “friends” this year, when he reconnected with this man, but friends do ing high schoolers, but we do it with great respect for where OF HER OWNER'S with an old girlfriend. NOT treat friends the way he the other is in their own jour- WHEREABOUTS. Thad a conversation with her has been treating you. ney. This is the best relation- ship either of us has ever been "ware pleys-com over Facebook, and she wanted to invite me out for coffee one day. I ended up messaging her in. I'm so glad we didn’t let our UN OCTOBER ZOZI, AN UNOPENED COPY OF DEAR ABBY: I've read many later on that night, and she letters over the years about age difference prevent us from enjoying this life together. -- told my boyfriend I had “made relationships in which there is a significant age gap, and LUCKIEST GIRL IN TEXAS THE (988 VIDEO GAME her uncomfortable.” She ended up blocking me on Facebook. thought I would like to share SUPER MARIO BROS. 2 Frere. gocomicsccom ‘Abby, he’s now saying he’s a success story. My boyfriend When DEAR LUCKIEST GIRL: both parties are adults SOLD AT AUCTION in love with both of us! I’m and I have a 22-year age dif- not allowed to talk about her, ference, and we couldn’t be with experience in the world, FOR $88,550. and anything they talk about is happier. We are both divorced age is only a number. While “none of my business.” I do not with children (his is grown there can be challenges in May- get as many phone calls from and lives independently; mine December unions, you and QN THE NIGHT OF 3 him as I used to, and I think are 14 and 11). We found each your boyfriend appear to be other about a year before the OCTOBER 3, 2021, RUTH li it’s because of her. I'm not sure what her plans are, but I get pandemic. He was above the looking at the future with eyes age range I'd specified on on- wide open. Thank you for your HAMILTON OF BRITISH Hy i the feeling she’s trying to get line dating apps, but we met at upper of a letter. COLUMBIA, CANADA, WAS Fi me out of the picture. Please a mutual friend’s art opening. ‘There were immediate sparks, Dear Abby is written by Abi- WOKEN UP BY A LOUD tell me what to do. -- CROWD- ED IN ALASKA and we didn’t realize our age gail Van Buren, also known EXPLOSION CAUSED BY A E difference until about a week as Jeanne Phillips, and was later. By then the seeds of a founded by her mother, Pau- MELON-SIZED METEORITE DEAR CROWDED: Forgive me for seeming negative, but mature, non-codependent re- line Phillips. Contact Dear lationship were sprouting, CRASHING THROUGH HER from what you have written, I He's 60 now, andI am 38. We Abby at www.DearAbby.com or ROOF AND LANDING 11-27 don’t think this man is in love with either one of you. What live separately, but go back and P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, forth between the houses most CA 90069. INCHES FROM HER HEAD! Distributed by Andrews McMeel for UFS. 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