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Activities 4 - The Elk City News December 30, 2023 Man’s True Thoughts About His IPLEY’S Believe It or Not! Marriage Are Laid Bare every week or so to check in. I it to get anything in return, but Wicitors Leave PoTATOES Dear Abby work the night shift, so I sleep I have never received even so ON FREDERICK THE GREAT during the day and am back up much as a thank-you card from OF PRUGSIA'S GRAVESTONE DEAR ABBY: Our son “Ted” when they are asleep. How can this relative. IN Potspam, GERMANY, met a young lady, “Gina,” who [help my husband to see that ‘This person isn’t hurting fi- BECAUSE HE POPULARIZED I really like. She told him she they really do love each other nancially by any means. They EATING THE VEGETABLE IN had polycystic ovary syndrome and to help make Gina part of constantly travel and enter- THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. and would have a hard time the family? - TORN MOTH- tain. The only contact we have conceiving, Well, she got preg- ER-IN-LAW is when they are ready to buy nant and they ended up, spur another vehicle. Then they text of the moment, going to the DEAR TORN: It appears your me to say they need the autho- courthouse to get married. Waren COUPLES MARRY AT husband still has some unre- tization number to give to the When Gina went into labor, solved issues regarding the cir- dealer. “THE CHURCH ON PICTURESQUE we drove three hours to be cumstances of your marriage BLev ISLanp In SLOVENIA, I'd like to stop this relative with them and stayed in a ho- that he has projected onto your from utilizing my discount, TRADITION DICTATES THE tel, only to be told she didn’t daughter-in-law. Point out to GROOM CARRY HIS BRIDE UP but I don’t know how to handle want company. She'd had a him that this hasn't escaped 29 eters. this. We see this person at holi- horrible three-day labor that your notice, and suggest that if ended with a C-section. I sort day gatherings. - DONE WITH he wants anything resembling of understand her not wanting a healthy relationship with his THE DISCOUNT to see anybody, but we dropped son, Gina, that baby AND YOU, Ben Kesseis or THE everything and weren't able to he must start talking with a li- DEAR DONE: Greet this NETHERLANDS FILLED A even see our grandchild. censed therapist. It may also relative warmly at the next ROOM WITH PRINTED My husband, “Peter,” has require some sessions with a holiday gathering. When you VERSIONS OF EVERY a lot of resentment toward counselor who specializes in are asked again about that dis- PICTURE UPLOADED TO Gina and Ted. My problem is, family therapy, if Ted and Gina count, give them the sad news when Peter and I married, I are willing. Cross your fingers. that they starved their golden FLickr In A 2ZH-Hour was three months pregnant. If your husband won't agree to goose to death, which should PERIOD, TOTALING NEARLY He has it stuck in his head that it, go without him. get the message across. And if ONE MILLION IMAGES! Gina “trapped” Ted into get- it is requested again, ignore it. ting married. When Peter and DEAR ABBY: I am a retired I went through a rough patch, automotive worker. My em- Dear Abby is written by Abi- he made that comment about ployer allows me to share my gail Van Buren, also known usa couple times. company discount with close as Jeanne Phillips, and was Crossword When Ted and Gina come founded by her mother, Pau- relatives. One of them has tak- here, which isn’t often, my hus- en advantage of my discount line Phillips. Contact Dear band makes no effort to get to for the last 15 years, which Abby at www.DearAbby.com or ACROSS know Gina, only to judge her. has saved this person literally P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, 1 Farmland output I try to text or FaceTime them thousands of dollars. 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