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Wife is bothered by her husband’s frat-boy past
hook-ups and one-night stands.
He now estimates that he was
with over 50 different girls during
college, but says it “shouldn’t
bother me” because it was mean-
ingless sex and in the past. He
said he told me “five” because
they were the ones he counted as
relationships.
Now I see women on his social
media who went to the same
school and I obsess about how
they fit into his past. It’s driving
me crazy, and I feel like just a
number now. I know if this situ-
ation were reversed, he’d flip out
about it.
I wish I had never found this
out because I see him differently
now, and no longer want to be
close to him. He’s a good father
and husband, but I’m struggling
Dear Abby: I met my husband
on the job when we were one year
out of school. We are both 36. We
dated for three years and were
compatible in every way. Ten
years later, we have two kids (7
and 5), own a home and are finan-
cially secure.
When we dated, we discussed
our “history,” and he told me that
he’d had five prior girlfriends. I
had three boyfriends in college.
Well, I learned a few months ago
— at his reunion — that he com-
pletely “forgot” the part about his
competitive frat-boy past with
with how to accept this new infor-
mation, and I need some guid-
ance. — Wish I Didn’t Know
Dear Wish: People usually
lie because they aren’t proud of
the truth. You say he has been a
good husband and father. This is
why you need to find it in your
heart to forgive him. If you have
caught him in lies since then,
you have a reason to be reacting
the way you have. However, if
you haven’t, please consider
talking with a licensed mar-
riage and family therapist until
you have worked it through.
The resentment you feel could
destroy your marriage. Please do
not let that happen.
Dear Abby: My husband and
I recently moved in with my
grandmother, partly to help out
Dear Torn: Your husband is
protective, and for that I applaud
him. If you can’t work because
an underlying health condition
makes you more vulnerable to
COVID, then as much as your
father would like you out of the
house and working during the
day, you cannot do it.
Your life could be at risk.
What does your doctor have to
say about this?
You are no longer a little girl.
It’s time for a family discussion
to iron this out, including what
your father meant when he said
your husband doesn’t “under-
stand.” If it can’t be resolved
in a mature and respectful
manner, you and your husband
may need to make other living
arrangements.
and partly because I lost my job
due to underlying health con-
ditions that made dealing with
COVID incredibly difficult. Now
that we’re close to family again,
some of them think they need
to dictate what we do. The big-
gest topic is whether I should try
going back to work now.
My husband is adamant that
he wants me home until it’s
safer for me to go out again, but
my father thinks it’s not a good
idea, and insists that my husband
doesn’t understand “everything.”
I don’t want to make either of
them angry, but I feel like I need
to stick with my husband, and I
don’t know how to get my father
to understand because he’s stub-
born. Any advice? — Torn, And
Tired Of It
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
Chicago man jumps into Lake Michigan for 365th straight day
CHICAGO — A Chi-
cago bus driver looking
for a way to relieve stress
during the coronavirus
pandemic jumped into
Lake Michigan for a 365th
straight day on Saturday,
June 12.
Dan O’Conor said he
started jumping into the
lake at Montrose Harbor on
the city’s North Side last
year to relieve stress.
“It was during the pan-
demic, it was during the
protest, it was during an
election year. So it was
somewhere where I could
come down here and block
all that noise out and kind
of be totally present with
me in the lake, and find
some moments of Zen,”
said the father of three.
He continued jumping
into the lake through the
fall before the hard part:
Hacking a hole in the ice
on the frozen lake that was
big enough for him to jump
Lobster diver injured
when caught in whale’s
mouth
BARNSTABLE, Mass.
— A commercial lobster
diver who got caught in the
mouth of a humpback whale
off the coast of Cape Cod
on Friday, June 11, said he
thought he was going to die.
Michael Packard, 56, of
Wellfleet, told WBZ-TV
after he was released from
Cape Cod Hospital that he
was about 45 feet deep in
the waters off Provincetown
when “all of a sudden I felt
this huge bump, and every-
thing went dark.”
He thought he had
been attacked by a shark,
common in area waters, but
then realized he could not
Shafkat Anowar/The Associated Press
Dan O’Conor, the “Great Lake Jumper,” makes his 365th leap into Lake Michigan, Saturday, June 12, 2021,
in Chicago’s Montrose Point.
through during the winter.
He said when he got home
after one such jump, he
found about 20 scrapes and
cuts on his body.
He was encouraged by
the response he got for his
undertaking.
“People started asking
me what this was benefiting
and how they could support
— and when I say people,
I’m talking strangers
online, you know. When I
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started posting the videos
on Twitter and Instagram.
I got more wind in my sails
there because people started
commenting like, ‘This
makes my day, it’s nice to
see this,” he said.
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Astoria
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Hood River
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Portland
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Maupin
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warmer
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sunshine
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Sun and some
clouds
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89 53
87 53
Eugene
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Enterprise
9
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40 74 49
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85 57
84 56
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TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High Sunday
Low Sunday
High: 116°
Low: 30°
Wettest: 3.00”
94°
43°
98°
52°
100°
48°
PRECIPITATION (inches)
Sunday
Trace
Month to date
Trace
Normal month to date 0.59
Year to date
2.23
Normal year to date
5.12
0.00
Trace
0.77
5.90
8.57
0.04
0.17
0.88
14.38
12.80
HAY INFORMATION WEDNESDAY
30%
NNE at 6 to 12 mph
2.0
0.24
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Monday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
OREGON
La Grande
Lakeview
Brookings
WEATHER HISTORY
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
Death Valley, Calif.
Bodie State Park, Calif.
Brookings, Ore.
High: 98°
Low: 39°
Wettest: 2.23”
17% of capacity
80% of capacity
46% of capacity
89% of capacity
48% of capacity
85% of capacity
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Sunday)
Ben Franklin’s famous experiment on June
15, 1752, in Philadelphia, demonstrated
the existence of electricity. Franklin nar-
rowly avoided electrocution, however, by
fl ying a kite in a thunderstorm.
SUN & MOON
TUE.
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
WED.
5:04 a.m. 5:04 a.m.
8:42 p.m. 8:43 p.m.
9:53 a.m. 11:04 a.m.
12:15 a.m. 12:43 a.m.
MOON PHASES
Grande Ronde at Troy
3580 cfs
Thief Valley Reservoir near North Powder
48 cfs
Burnt River near Unity
92 cfs
Umatilla River near Gibbon
76 cfs
Minam River at Minam
1680 cfs
Powder River near Richland
26 cfs
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REGIONAL CITIES
THU.
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Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
Astoria
68/50/s 69/51/s
Bend
77/49/s 82/55/s
Boise
85/56/s 91/60/s
Brookings
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Burns
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Council
82/50/s 89/53/s
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82/49/s 91/53/s
Hood River
82/52/s 90/56/s
Imnaha
77/50/s 84/55/s
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78/46/s 84/49/s
Joseph
73/49/s 77/54/s
Kennewick
82/52/s 90/55/s
Klamath Falls 84/46/s 90/49/s
Lakeview
84/47/s 89/50/pc
57/87
49/85
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Grand View
Arock
41/80
Fields
Medford
Brookings
Diamond
42/82
40/82
41/81
Boise
54/85
Silver Lake
Chiloquin
52/70
45/84
37/79
50/82
Grants Pass
Juntura
40/80
35/76
Beaver Marsh
56/87
Burns
Brothers
36/79
Roseburg
Ontario
39/77
46/81
Coos Bay
47/82
56/85
Seneca
41/77
Oakridge
Council
40/76
John Day
Bend
Elkton
Powers
45/81
39/73
41/76
Florence
SUNDAY EXTREMES
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43/79
Baker City
49/69
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Pendleton
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feel any teeth and he wasn’t
in any pain.
“Then I realized, oh
my God, I’m in a whale’s
mouth and he’s trying to
swallow me,” he said. “And
I thought to myself OK, this
is it — I’m finally — I’m
gonna die.”
He estimates he was in
the whale’s mouth for about
30 seconds, but continued
to breathe because he still
had his breathing apparatus
in.
Then the whale surfaced,
shook its head, and spit him
out. He was rescued by his
crewmate in the boat.
Charles “Stormy” Mayo,
a senior scientist and whale
expert at the Center for
Coastal Studies in Provinc-
etown, told the newspaper
that such human-whale
encounters are rare.
Humpbacks are not
aggressive and Mayo
thinks it was an accidental
encounter while the whale
was feeding on fish, likely
sand lance.
The day was special
because it was the culmi-
nation of doing it for a full
year.
“I just wanted to cele-
brate just that drive to dive
for 365,” O’Conor said.
The Associated Press
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