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Activities 4 - The Elk City News November 11, 2023 Bachelorette Party Planning @IPLEY’S Believe It or Not! Foreshadows Expensive Trip i TOOK ASTRONOMERS Scentists HAVE TWO DAYS TO REALIZE A DISCOVERED THAT IN THE need to level with her, because her feel guilty or obligated. — Dear Abby the wedding will cost you even GRIEVING IN CANADA SKYSCRAPER-SIZED, 53,000-meH EARLY DAYS OF more. What isn’t reasonable is ASTEROID HAD SQUEAKED THE UNIVERSE, TIME MOVED DEAR ABBY: My best friend for her to expect everyone to DEAR GRIEVING: Yes, you PAST EARTH AT A FIVE TIMES SLOWER! is getting married next year drop everything and blow their should let her go. Your friend DISTANCE 75% CLOSER and is planning for her bach- budgets in order for her to “feel no longer feels the tie to you THAN THE MOON! elorette party. Right now, they special.” that she did when the two of are looking at places that havea you lived close by. If you want three- or four-night minimum DEAR ABBY: I had a best to tell her how much you miss and would cost each person friend I got together with her friendship, you are entitled more than $500. (That’s just weekly. She decided she need- to do that. But please recog- to rent the place.) It wouldn’t ed to move away to a quieter nize that not all friendships cover food, gifts, ete, place. Of course, I was disap- last forever; some have an ex- My friend isn’t a fancy, ex- pointed, but I supported her piration date, and the one you travagant person, so I was decision because it was right had with her appears to be one shocked by the length of time for her. She promised me noth- of them. Tll need to take off from work ing would change, but we lived and the amount of money I too far apart for our weekly will have to spend. I worry if I visits to continue, so I hoped DEAR VETERANS: For your try to (nicely) say something, we would talk weekly by phone. service to our nation, I salute it will come across as not car- She canceled our last get-to- you. My thanks to each of you ing about her, her wedding or gether, saying she was stressed on this Veterans Day. You are doing this for her. It’s not that and busy preparing for the the personification of patrio- I can't afford it, and I think move. I told her I understood, tism, self-sacrifice and dedica- Macseive erorne on I should have some time off and I'd give her space and time tion to our country. I would SATURN CAN WRAP available, but it’s going to cost to settle in and would wait for also like to recognize your AROUND THE ENTIRE more than I'm comfortable her call when she was ready. families for the sacrifices they, PLANET, REMAINING VISIBLE with. Am I being unreason- ‘The call never came. too, have made while you were FOR OVER A YEAR AT A TIME! able? I wouldn’t want to not We have seen each other a serving your country. -- LOVE, make her feel special. - SOUR few times in the years since ABBY ON IT IN INDIANA she moved, always at her sug- gestion. I gently reminded her Dear Abby is written by Abi- DEAR SOUR: You are not of the phone calls we used to gail Van Buren, also known being unreasonable. You are make and mentioned getting as Jeanne Phillips, and was Crossword practical, and your reasoning together a few times, but I re- founded by her mother, Pau- is sound. If your friend’s bach- ceived no response. Must I just line Phillips. Contact Dear elorette party will be more of a let her go? I want to tell her Abby at www.DearAbby.com or ACROSS 1 Hammer part Current puzzle answers financial stretch than you can how much I miss her friend- P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, COMFORTABLY afford, you ship, but I’m afraid it will make CA 90069, 5 Kind of scouting badge 10 Sponsorship AND AML Non } ALWAYS SAY] Now WAKE IT (var.) 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