January 3, 2024 Issue, Page 5 of 8

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January 3, 2024 Activities The Elk City News - 5 Husband’s Change Of Heart GIPLEY’S Believe it or Not! Wasn’t So Sudden After All Duawe tHe iret two weeKS | you married isn’t the person are. They both have jobs. I live OF LIFE, A BABY BLUE TIT, Dear Abby you thought he was. alone on one salary. Alot of the A SMALL BIRD NATIVE TO You have every right to feel things they stole I had to save Eurore AND ASIA, WILL EAT DEAR ABBY: Three months pain and anger, but your time 1,000 caTerPILLars. ago, my husband of 30 years and money would be better up to pay for. They are nothing came home from work, told me spent in the office of a licensed more than liars and thieves. he wasn’t happy anymore and mental health professional. What do you suggest? -- VIC- said he wanted a divorce. He ‘That your adult children went TIMIZED IN OKLAHOMA announced he was moving in along with keeping you in the with his brother until he could dark is shameful. It will take DEAR VICTIMIZED: Please find a place. Six days later, I time to work through this, and accept my sympathy. You trust- found out he'd moved in with the sooner you start, the bet a woman he'd been seeing for a ter. ed your neighbors, and they few months. took advantage. But the horse We T. Rex's ROAR IN THE Tam devastated. He flaunts DEAR ABBY: I moved to a is out of the barn. Change the 1993 Fim "Jurassic Park” his new heifer all around town, rural area a couple of years locks on your house if you hav- WAS COMPOSED OF TIGER, forcing her on our grand- ago and was surprised at how en't already done it. Install se- ALLIGATOR, BABY ELEPHANT daughters and rubbing her in friendly my neighbors were. curity cameras linked to your AND OTHER ANIMAL GOUNDS. my face. My divorce has been They seemed eager to help cellphone so you have a record filed on the grounds of adul- at first. I got sick and had to tery. I can’t believe he dragged spend a few days in the hos- of who enters your property Sone my adult children into the mid- pital. I asked the couple to when you are out. Photograph and list the serial numbers on TRICERATOPS' dle of this and made them lie please feed and water my pets SKULLS COULD tome. until I could come home. They your valuable items and store MAKE UP Ihave been trying to let go, did, but they also made a copy it away from home. (A safety but how do you let go of some- of my house keys, entered my deposit box would be a safe ONE-THIRD OF one who gave you so much to home after I returned to work place.) And insure any items of THEIR ENTIRE temember? I’m still very much and stole several thousand dol- BODY LENGTH. in love with him. After such lars’ worth of stuff from me. value so you are protected in a long marriage, must I just I am hurt and very angry case it happens again. ‘Suemirreo By JONATHAN Wisava, ‘West Jakarta, INDONESIA, let it end like this? - DUMB- over this. The police said I have FOUNDED IN TENNESSEE to show receipts to prove own- Dear Abby is written by Ab- 1-3 2026 nisey enertainmentina._wessheyncom wow gosoricecom Datrouted by Andrews MeMoa! fr UF ership of the things that were igail Van Buren, also known DEAR DUMBFOUNDED: 1 taken. But most of it I have as Jeanne Phillips, and was Crossword suppose you could talk to your owned for years, and I no lon- founded by her mother, Pau- lawyer and try to drag out the ger have the receipts. divorce, hoping your husband I'm going to confront this line Phillips. Contact Dear ACROSS will “come to his senses.” But couple, but how do I get over Abby at www.DearAbby.com or 1 Hobble at some point, you will have to what they did? I can't believe P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, 5 Lock of hair admit to yourself that the man how trashy and low-class they CA 90069. 10 Uproar 14 Eternally IN cRDeR TD Re YW 15 Cattle farm MEDITATE, VEDTATING, 16 British gallery UWMMMMMMM,.. 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