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December 27, 2023 Activities The Elk City News - 5 Man’s Repeated Absences Now QIPLEY’S Believe It or Not! Have An Explanation (MOLLY, A GUINEA PIG OWNED BY arating myself from him until Emma MULLER FROM Dear Abby he can show me he’s no longer ried now. Since I learned that he is Domsovar, doing those things. As for now, my biological grandson, I have Huneary, DEAR ABBY: My boyfriend we are done. His words are CAN DUNK & of three years works six days meaningless. I'm not accepting ached to acknowledge our re- (.7-INcH BALL a week with Sundays off. For his guilt trip that I'm ending lationship. But I don’t want INTO A TINY HOOP the last six weeks, my calls this over nothing. Am I doing to rock the boat and disrupt EIGHT TIMES IN have gone unanswered from the right thing? - TAKING A the family dynamic, let alone BO SEcoNvs. Saturday evening through BREAK IN TEXAS Monday morning. He'd pro- break my son's trust. Should DEAR TAKING: Yes! A thou- vide a lame excuse, apologize sand times yes. Knowing he I take this secret to my grave? wae Ameterpam DUCK STORE IN for the “missed” calls, and the spent six weekends in a drug After all, he already calls me THE NETHERLANDS SELLS NOTHING next weekend, the same thing house makes me wonder if he “Nana.” -- REAL TRUTH IN BUT RUBBER DUCKS, WITH HUNDREDS would happen. Long story was also involved in sexual ac- OF OPTIONS RANGING FROM DOCTORS short, he was spending time in tivities. (Please have yourself THE SOUTHWEST TO NINSAS AND more! a drug house on the weekends. tested.) Your boyfriend lied DEAR REAL TRUTH: Do He ignored my calls because he and disrespected you. He likes NOTHING without first didn’t want me to know what getting high and enjoys the talking about this with your he was doing. He says it’s “no company of people who break son. Because of the popularity big deal,” he isn’t doing it any- the law. You are doing yourself more and we should move for- a HUGE favor by getting rid of of DNA testing in recent years, ward as if this never happened. him, Make it permanent. Bra- your grandson may find out on Wee omy is My issue is, I no longer trust vo for you. his own that the man he was BARE HANDS AND A him or his judgment because DEAR ABBY: My dear friend raised to believe is his father CLAY SCULPTING KNIFE, ( never imagined he'd do any- “Lana” and her husband both is not. This kind of revelation YAN SUNHAL, A STREET thing like this. Since he has, I passed away a while back. Re- ARTIST FROM CHANGSHA, no longer feel like I know him. cently, my son confided that can be devastating to some in- CHINA, CREATES dividuals. The news would be What he did was deceitful and he and Lana’s daughter had INCREDIBLY ACCURATE extremely selfish. Now he says an affair years ago that result- better coming from your son CLAY BUSTS OF ('m throwing away our rela- ed in a child. We all grew up than from you. PASSERSBY. tionship because “he made a dose and regarded ourselves Dear Abby is written by Ab- mistake.” To me, it isn’t a mis- as related even though we were take if you repeat the behavior not. Lana’s daughter married igail Van Buren, also known over and over. He CHOSE to do someone and passed the child as Jeanne Phillips, and was Crossword drugs, hide it and ignore me, off as her husband’s. I never founded by her mother, Pau- and he didn’t care about any- noticed how much that young line Phillips. Contact Dear thing or anyone but himself. man resembles my son before ACROSS NowI know, and Iam not ac- T always called him one of my Abby at www.DearAbby.com or Deep voice Current puzzle answers cepting the behavior. I believe grandsons in an unofficial ca- P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, 5 Propose F{[X)t|oO/Llo}atjz he will do it again, so I'm sep- pacity. He is grown and mar- CA 90069. Bobeck of “The Drew Carey } Wet... 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