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Activities 4 - The Elk City News October 28, 2023 Friend Hasn’t Delivered GIPLEY’S Believe It or Not! Promised Craft Project Tuomas Evison NICKNAMED ing it. Meanwhile, she has great until I realized he is HIV- TWO OF HIS KIDS Dear Abby found the time to create cro- positive. When I asked him, he "Dot" AND "DASH," chet and cross-stitch items for AFEECTIONATELY REFERENCING denied it. DEAR ABBY: I’m having an MORSE CODE SIGNALS. issue with my longtime best her extended family and re- When I returned to the clinic friend. We no longer live in the model her kitchen. to get tested again, I was told same state, but we talk several T'm so hurt about the whole thing that Id like to ask her to I am now HIV-positive. We times a week and try to visit every year. We both love craft- return the T-shirt pieces to me. had been using protection, but ing, and two years ago, I start- stopped. [haven't told my fam- At least that way I could hire ed making her a big, beautiful someone to make me the quilt. ily yet, but he knows. How can counted cross-stitch and had Am I being unreasonable? — I give my family this news? — it custom framed. ‘The project WAITING IN THE SOUTH LOVED BUT CONFUSED took several months, and she knew I was making it. DEAR WAITING: What you She offered I didn’t ask-- to are considering is not only rea- sonable, but also rational. The DEAR LOVED: Before you make any announcements to 2) RIGINATING IN RUSSIA, make me a quilt from T-shirts PHONE BOOTH BOXING Thad collected over the years next time you and your friend your family, schedule an ap- INVOLVES TWO BOXERS from various places I had been. chat, tell her you understand pointment with your physi- FIGHTING IN — So I cut the logos/graphics off what a busy person she is. Ex- cian to discuss this diagnosis. YOU GUESSED IT! — the shirts and mailed them to plain that you would like her to You need to be put on antiviral A RED PHONE BOOTH, her. She told me it would take find the time to return the fab- medication as soon as possible. ASTARO. her only a week to make the ric you sent so you can make If you are still with this loser, quilt. That was two years ago. other arrangements to have Sean Kennevy, A It has been a year since I drove the quilt made. Smile when he should be put on medica- Britisy utiity six hours each way to deliver you say it so your tone will be tion as well. Not only does his WORKER, FOUND my cross-stitch gift to her, and “warm and friendly.” That way, life depend on it, but he could HO-veAR-oLD she still hasn't made the quilt. the friendship can continue if infect many more partners. LETTERS STASHED IN Thave since moved even far- you wish. Once you have begun the A RABBIT HOLE! ther away. I miss home, and I 10-8 cietiouied ny andrews McMeel for UES, www.gocomlcs.com wowip leys.com ©2023 Ripley Entertainment Inc. DEAR ABBY: At the begin- treatment your doctor pre- really want the quilt. I have ning of the year, I broke up scribes, inform your family, asked her about it several with my boyfriend. I went to Do not be shocked if they want Crossword times. ‘The quilt would mean a clinic to get tested for STDs, you to put the person who so much to me, especially now and everything turned out that I'm more than 1,000 miles fine. A few months later, I failed to mention he is HIV- ACROSS away, but she keeps making started dating another guy I'd positive and then infected you 1 “Catch —— empty promises about finish- met last year. Everything was in the rear-view mirror. 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