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Activities February 11, 2023 The Elk City News - 5 Mother Sees Trouble In Son’s Current Living Arrangement ts HERE ARE ation? -- DISGUSTED IN MIN- pen if he asks me out. What Dear Abby NESOTA should I do? Should I go out AMISH COMPUTERS. with him? Is it possible to love DEAR ABBY: My 44-year-old DEAR DISGUSTED: Your one man and also be in love son is a long-haul driver. His son's girlfriend promised be- with another? I'm so crazy irlfriend has 14-year-old and fore she moved in that she about Tony that it hurts. I 17-year-old daughters, who arewould pay half the expenses. think about him all the time She has reneged on her prom- and even dream about him. (I noth high-functioning autistic. My son thinks they should ise, and your son has allowed aave chores because they need it. This woman is not only irre- have been known to talk in my sponsible, she’s a terrible par- sleep.) When 'm making love ‘0 learn to live independently. This is the biggest argument ent by fostering her daughters’ to my husband, Tony's on my hey have. dependence. When the girls mind. Please tell me what to Ww ADDITION TO PLAYING He says that they should be turn 18 nothing will change, do. - MISERABLY IN LOVE IN SLOTH IN "THE Goontes,” on the internet for only four and he should expect to sup- MISSOURI SouN MATUSZAK was A aours per day, and that once port the three of them until STATE CHAMPION IN THE SHOT |“ hey graduate, they will have he finally has had enough of DEAR MISERABLY IN ‘0 be on their own. They do this arrangement. If you have LOVE: Gladly! Lady, you are PUT, PLAYED IN TWO SUPER aothing around the house ~ shared your feelings with him playing with fire. Recognize Bow. GAMES AND HAD ACTED and he has chosen to tolerate WITH RINGO STARR BEFORE the status quo, then quit wast- that if you follow through with ‘hey don’t clean their room or vick up after themselves. My starting an affair with your PASSING AWAY AT BB. son has told his girlfriend that ing your breath. It is his life f they don’t learn how to do and HIS CHOICE. boss, it's likely to end up hurt- t now, they won't know once ing four people, including you. hey move out DEAR ABBY: I'm a 40-year- ‘The odds are that your mar- His girlfriend tells him he is old wife and mother, mar- riage will be history, and Tony (Lions CAN SLEEP FOR MORE ‘ight when he says, “You need ried for 23 years. I have never could be in for a very expensive THAN ZO HOURS FOLLOWING ‘o find another place to live.” been unfaithful. I never even divorce. A LARGE MEAL! But she goes right back to do- thought of another man until Whether you continue for ng nothing to help her girls a few months ago. Then, boom! years as Tony's side piece, or earn to become independent. It happened. 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