July 25, 2026 Issue, Page 5 of 16

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ACTIVITIES The Elk City News SATURDAY, JULY 25, 2026 • 5 Widow Has Second Thoughts About Rekindled Romance DEAR ABBY: After a four-year with and how I will never be able to an built like a racing sloop or a sugar gone. Should I write my honest ac- battle with cancer, my husband of 27 DEAR ABBY measure up to them. There’s nothing mama. He is interested in the person counting covering 50 years and leave years passed away. After his death, I special about me. I’m not beautiful, I you are. it for posterity? -- TALES TO TELL was contacted by a guy I had been a couple of people I knew, and we don’t have a “killer body” and I don’t Please ask your doctor for a refer- IN FLORIDA involved with 40 years before. He would run into each other a couple of have a lot of money. I don’t want to ral to a licensed mental health pro- DEAR TALES: For the sake of said he wanted me to know that he times a year. ruin what is possibly the best thing fessional who can help you make a Well, we are now seeing each other your children, their spouses, and was there for me if I needed to talk that has ever happened to me, but serious attitude adjustment before your grandchildren please resist the or just needed some company. I told again. He has told me how sorry he is I just can’t seem to move past this. your insecurity ruins what could po- for breaking my heart all those years urge to recount in detail your sexual him how much I appreciated it and I What can I do to move forward from tentially be a happy future. ago. He says he knows that being a history. When you depart this earthly would call if I felt he could help. his past? -- BACK WHERE I START- man is not being with every woman plane, leave them with at least a few This man was someone I had loved ED IN TENNESSEE DEAR ABBY: I have been lucky. I you possibly can be with but being have done well and lived a good life. illusions, I’m begging you. intensely. We had dated for seven years when he broke my heart. He willing to commit to the one woman DEAR BACK: The only thing that I’m married (my third time), and I was seeing other people behind my you know you love. He says he knows could ruin what is possibly the best have adult children and grandkids. Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van back, and when I found out, I broke he made a mistake and he loves me thing that has ever happened to you For most of my life, I have had an Buren, also known as Jeanne Phil- up with him. We always managed to and wants us to spend the rest of our is your low level of self-esteem. This active sex life. Much of it I wouldn’t lips, and was founded by her mother, stay in touch, though. He would call lives together. man appears to have matured in the want my children to know about Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby to wish me happy birthday or just say The problem: I can’t stop thinking years since you broke up with him. while I’m alive, but it could make for at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box hi. We remained friends. He dated about all the women he has been He isn’t after a raving beauty, a wom- some erotic reading years after I’m 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069. CROSSWORD Get Fuzzy CURRENT PUZZLE ANSWERS Drabble Dailies Pearls Before Swine Garfield