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October 4, 2023 Activities The Elk City News - 5 Man’s Daughter Refuses To GIPLEY’S Believe It or Not! Contact Grandmother any family gatherings years 20 feet without becoming ex- Dear Abby ago. Obviously, something has hausted, and this is with sup- driven my daughter to refuse to plementary oxygen. She has DEAR ABBY: My 23-year-old acknowledge her grandmother, other issues as well. daughter, “Chloe,” lives with and for that matter, the rest of A BEER FACTORY LEAK When people ask me how TURNED THE WATER IN A me and refuses to acknowledge our extended and very large my wife is doing, I tend to re- PoRT OFF NAGo, JAPAN, her grandmother's emails and family. How do I break this spond, what I consider to be letters, which are delivered proverbial ice? -- DAD IN THE BLOOD RED! MIDDLE IN VIRGINIA humorously but also pragmat- to our home. It has been four ically, “Well, I haven't buried years since my mother has even seen Chloe. My mother anDEAR DAD: Your daughter is her yet.” But when I do, peo- adult, She, not you, is pre- ple become offended. Most of is growing increasingly dis- sumably responsible for her them don’t realize we deal with Sony soup irs appointed and is grieved by own behavior. I don’t know this every day, and I have no W Series WALKMAN Chloe's apparent distancing. what happened four years ago desire to recount every detail IN A BOTTLE OF WATER Se (We live 20 miles apart.) that caused Chloe to with- of her problems to satisfy their | TO PROVE IT WAS. Over the past year or so, I draw, not only from her grand- curiosity. At the same time, REALLY WATERPROOF. have calmly asked Chloe to re- mother but also the entire I realize most are asking out ply to her grandmother's kind dan, and neither do you (or of genuine concern. Is there a emails and letters. She gen- you would have mentioned it). better answer? -- WISE GUY IN erally hears me out and then Step out from the middle, Dad, turns and walks away. I have and let your daughter deal with FLORIDA the fallout from having excom- a close and loving relationship municated the entire family. DEAR WISE GUY: I think so. with my mother. To me, she’s Try responding, “She’s doing eA PINK DOLPHIN KNOWN AS You can’t fix this. Only Chloe the world’s greatest mom and can do that. as well as can be expected,” or “Poy” HAS BEEN SPOTTED grandmother. I also have a “Her condition hasn’t changed; MULTIPLE TIMES IN warm and loving relationship DEAR ABBY: Twenty years I will tell her you asked after Carcasieu Lake, Louisiana, with my daughter. There’s lit- ago, my wife was diagnosed her,” and then change the sub- AND SOME RESIDENTS SAY THERE tle that I wouldn’t do to ensure with a life-threatening health MAY SE MORE THAN ONE! ject. her a safe and comfortable issue. 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