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August 23, 2023 Activities The Elk City News - 5 Man’s Risque Questions To RIPLEY'S Believe It or Not! Others Bother Wife Ur IS POSSIBLE TO fore my big day. Would it be in- TELL WHAT AND Dear Abby THEY consider him to be the life of the party or just a (pos- appropriate to talk to my ladies were A NABWHAL sibly) drunken boor? Because about their new hair colors? — h) WAS EATING By DEAR ABBY: My husband you have already talked to him HAIR IN THE WEST STUDYING THE has, for years, felt the need to until you're blue in the face, RINGS OF ITS talk filthy and ask sexual ques- start talking to THEM. Per- DEAR HAIR: I don’t think it tions of other women. It both- haps, if you present a united would be inappropriate to talk ers me something terrible. He's front, he will stop. to your bridesmaids about your upset that I ruin his “fun,” and concerns. However, if they are insists he isn’t hurting anyone DEAR ABBY: I am getting unwilling to change, try to re- and that he likes being the life married in a few months, and member the reason you chose LOOKING FOR THE of the party. We have fought PERFECT TRAVEL PARTNER, half of my bridesmaids recent- these friends. I sincerely hope HAS SPENT NEARLY over this for years, and I’m ex- ly colored their hair unnatural it was for attributes other than hausted from it. $116,000 TRAVELING colors. Their new hair colors their looks. I told him I don’t see the ALL ACROSS THE dash with the color of the Unites STATES WITH HIS need for him to do this, and he dresses we've chosen as well as DEAR ABBY: How do I con- ADVENTUROUS CAT, continues to tell me I need to the overall theme of my wed- vince my liberal parents that Simon! quit being so unreasonable. I ding. my bisexuality is not a phase? don’t know what to do, and I'm At first, it didn’t bother me I'm 16, and I just came out. My CASTARIO. ready to just give up. It doesn’t because I used to have wild mom told me she'd “had a gay THIS DOESN'T LOOK make me love or respect him. hair, too. I get it. However, I phase, too.” I don’t want con- FAMILIAR... I actually loathe him when was once in a wedding where flict, but I'm also pretty hurt. By eruvvine he does it. Please help. - RE- the bride asked me to keep my How do I convince them to ANCIENT WOOD PELLED IN IOWA hair a natural color for her big take me seriously? — BI GIRL SAMPLES, RESEARCHERS day, and I didn’t have any is- IN PENNSYLVANIA FOUND THAT VIKINGS DEAR REPELLED: It’s sad sue with her asking. Now I'm were IN NorTH America that your husband would wondering if that is the norm. DEAR GIRL: Your mother \ SOO years serore re | Curis ToPHer continue to do something he Talso know it costs an arm and was not trying to hurt or di- Cotumsus! knows embarrasses you. You aleg to color a full head of hair, minish what you told her. 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