September 27, 2025 Issue, Page 5 of 12

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ACTIVITIES The Elk City News SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2025 • 5 Self-Indulgent Ex-Husband Wants A Second Chance DEAR ABBY: I was with the DEAR STAY OR GO: Your terview when the interview is in DEAR DRESSING: If it were same man for 36 years, but I di- DEAR ABBY ex-husband abandoned you an office, but the work is most- me, I would wear slacks and a vorced him three years ago be- while you were in treatment ly going to be outdoors? I have shirt, making sure they were cause of his gambling problems. mean to me after my first chemo for cancer. Please, for your own gotten a callback for a job relat- clean and pressed, and sturdy We came to this country 27 years that I had to tell him to leave. sake, LISTEN TO YOUR SON. ed to the research I did for my shoes. It would show you know ago, and ever since then I have We weren’t in contact for almost He is giving you good advice. master’s degree. It requires some been working and providing for a year until he saw me one day Rather than preoccupy yourself physical activity in what could be what would work in the field, but us. He never paid any bills. He in a store (I had no hair and had with what people from your old harsh weather conditions. This is be tidy enough to make a good was very controlling and pretty gained 45 pounds). He looked hometown might say, live in the something I am prepared for, but impression in the office. I do not much did whatever he pleased. shocked and started crying. here and now. Remind yourself the interviewer might not expect think office attire would be ap- I guess I was so busy trying to Since then, we are talking, and why you divorced your husband. that, as I’m a petite woman and propriate for the interview, and make a better life for our son, I he wants to come back. My son is He was controlling, was a prob- don’t meet the stereotype for the this would be more practical. didn’t realize how bad it was. against it. He thinks his dad just lem gambler, didn’t contribute field. Should I show up in office Our son is now 33. There is wants a safe haven. We are from financially and did whatever he clothes or the things I would ac- Dear Abby is written by Abigail no relationship between them. the same hometown, and it’s hard pleased without regard to you. tually wear on the job? I want to Van Buren, also known as Jeanne He refuses to talk to his father. not to have people gossip. I sur- Cherish and nurture relation- show that I know what will be We were divorced but still liv- vived cancer, but this is confus- ships that are MUTUAL, and you expected, but I also want to be Phillips, and was founded by her ing together, and he was giving ing, and I don’t know what to do. will be much happier. respectful. For what it’s worth, mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact me only $500 a month (he’s a Deep down, I know he will never I asked my mentor and couldn’t Dear Abby at www.DearAbby. truck driver). When I got breast change, but ... -- STAY OR GO IN DEAR ABBY: Do you have ad- get a straight answer. -- DRESS- com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Ange- cancer two years ago, he was so FLORIDA vice for what to wear to a job in- ING FOR SUCCESS les, CA 90069. CROSSWORD Get Fuzzy CURRENT PUZZLE ANSWERS Drabble Dailies Pearls Before Swine Garfield