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Activities March 23, 2024 The Elk City News -9 Best Friend Bitter That Fall GIPLEY’S Believe It or Not! Football Ritual Has Changed like your advice on what I can pain from arthritis and still Dear Abby do. -- LONELY SPORTS EAN find a way to clean my apart- OUT WEST ment. Her husband was en- DEAR ABBY: My best friend since the 9th grade and I have abled by his mother for the first DEAR SPORTS FAN: I under- always watched NEL football stand your sadness and hurt 35 years of his life, so he never on Sundays. We have watched feelings, but it's time to start learned to do anything except "Surassic WorLb” were through the births of my chil- accepting reality. Your friend pay bills and save money. dren (he is the godfather to has explained that his family FILMED AT THE ABANDONED both; they are now adults), ‘The moment you walk into Six FLAGS THEME PARK circumstances have changed, deaths in the family ~ every- their home, you are hit with and you must accept it. The in New ORLEANS. thing. He has never married or changes in his circumstances a smell. And forget using the had a significant other. He is have nothing to do with you bathroom -- the toilets have Berer REANALYZING [ Ves WAS ONCE very family-oriented, though. and everything to do with his brown rings, and their shower FOSSIL EVIDENCE, THOUGHT THAT He has two sisters and two desire to stay connected to his is so cruddy I wait to return SCIENTISTS BELIEVE THE STEGOSAURUS brothers. siblings. home to shower. I can hard- MEGALODON SHARK MAY WALKED ON Two years ago, his siblings It’s time to become proac- moved to other states. It was tive, Your next step should ly eat there because of the HAVE SEEN THINNER TWO LEGS. a very sad time for him. The be to find ANOTHER sports smell and the dirty tables and THAN PREVIOUSLY bond I thought would never be fan who can watch (or attend) kitchen. Would it be awkward THOUGHT, broken now has been, I com- these sporting events with to send them a gift card for pletely understand his visit- you, which will help to fill the house cleaning? Also, how do I ing them during Thanksgiv- void that now exists on foot- ing, Christmas and any special ball Sundays. decline an overnighter? - ME- event, but my view is, besides TICULOUS HOUSEGUEST those visits, he could see them DEAR ABBY: My friends of 20- at any time during the entire plus years bought their “dream DEAR HOUSEGUEST: Why six-month offseason from home,” and they're now 90 this couple hasn’t thought of football. miles away. They have not hiring a cleaning service is WhenI said this, he told me cleaned the place even once things have changed, and al- since they moved in. 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