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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2015 FEATURES 5A Sign up for organ donations Tomorrow’s horoscope Dear Annie: Please help me bring awareness and education about organ donation. There are thousands of people waiting for a transplant and hundreds of others awaiting replace- ment of a previously transplanted organ. Many organ recipients outlive the longevity of their transplant. Please tell your readers that living organ donors offer better longevity than organs from a cadaver donor. Finding donors promptly is also less expensive and much better health- wise. In recent years, a great deal has changed with transplants for both the recipient and living donors; i.e. kidney transplants are now being done lapa- roscopically, and recuperation for the donor now averages only two weeks. Potential recipients use every re- source available, but don’t always ¿QGDPDWFK3OHDVHDVN\RXUUHDGHUV to help those in need. Sadly, our fam- ily knows the importance of this from personal experience. — Lawrence, Kan. Dear Lawrence: So many peo- ple are on waiting lists for organs, we hope our readers will consider living organ donation. People may not realize that they can donate one of their two kidneys, or even one of two lobes of their liver. They also can donate part of a lung, the pan- ARIES (March 21-April 19). When you fight with yourself, at least fight fair! In the latest you-on-you battle, only one of you will be left standing. The good news is that this transformation probably won’t be painful, just awkward. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Your eyes are open to a clearer, faster, more direct way to happiness. Tonight, those close to you will benefit from your wave of crazy generosity. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). For your life to be happy, it must be full. And for your life to be full, it must be happy. Therefore, the most important move to make in the name of living a full life is the one you believe will bring the most happiness. CANCER (June 22-July 22). In Inter- net-speak, NSFW translates to “not safe for work.” You may feel that your entire mood isn’t safe for work today, as you would like to tell a lot of people how you really feel. How- ever, your self-control will be rewarded. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). When people make you mad, and they will, try to stay calm. It’s fine for you to be angry, but you’ll lose your power and status if you show it too much. One strategy that works is simply walking away. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Attractive solutions abound. Sometimes things look good because they are good. Just because something has a pretty sheen to it doesn’t mean you should automatically be suspi- cious. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Seize the op- portunity to explore your talents. This is best done by trying new things without a worry or care about who is watching or what they’ll think. You’ll make friends along the way. have sex until after marriage. When my daughter was 16, she asked whether it was OK to sleep with a man if he says he loves you. Creators I said no, he would lose respect for Syndicate Inc. her. She didn’t listen. Now she is living with a man who says she is Kathy Mitchell his “partner.” They just had a child. and It turns out he is married to another Marcy Sugar woman, and they have a toddler. My daughter has fallen for the old line creas or the intestines because the that he’ll marry her once his wife di- remaining portions stay fully func- vorces him. WLRQDO$QG¿QDOO\OLYLQJGRQRUVFDQ Women should ask themselves donate skin, bone, blood, marrow, what they get out of hooking up and blood stem cells and umbilical cord shacking up. Nothing. If you want blood after childbirth and certain the best from a man, don’t settle for surgical procedures, such as hip or a low-class bum who won’t commit. knee replacement. — A Wiser Gramma Who Knows Organ donors are not charged, Men although sometimes there are other Dear Gramma: Your opinions costs, such as travel expenses. For have merit, but they are based on the more information on organ donation, ideas that all men lie to get women FKHFNRXWRUJDQGRQRUJRY)RU¿QDQ- to sleep with them, and that women cial assistance, contact livingdono- use sex as a lure for marriage. This rassistance.org. isn’t necessarily true. Young wom- Dear Annie: When I was grow- en can enjoy sex as much as men ing up, women’s magazines used to do and don’t want to hold off until give advice on how to avoid being marriage, which nowadays may not harmed by predatory men. Now they happen until a woman is in her 30s, give advice on ways to please a man. if it happens at all. But you are ab- There’s an old saying, “Why buy the solutely right that if a woman wants cow if you can get the milk for free?” a legal commitment, she should not If women want to marry a good man be shacking up with a married man. and raise a family, they shouldn’t And vice versa. Annie’s Mailbox FRANK AND ERNEST BLONDIE THATABABY SALLY FORTH STONE SOUP B.C. LOLA DILBERT SIX CHIX BIZARRO MUTTS NON SEQUITUR BABY BLUES WIZARD OF ID ZITS ROSE IS ROSE By Holiday Mathis, Creators Syndicate Inc. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Today’s ac- tivities will not be what you would normally consider cause for celebration. And yet, you’ll celebrate them anyway. That’s what makes you awesome. Someone new will want to join in with all of that fun you’re having. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). All it takes is one sound decision to usher more love and money into your life. It’s not a hard one to make, but it does require humble learning and the tenacity to see this cycle through to the final stages. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You have a weird way of working through things, and you should trust that however different it may be from the way others do it, it’s still a good way for you. You’re an original, you know! AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You deal with life according to how you feel about it at the moment, and there will be several moments of the day that are highly charged. Emotional distancing may be in order. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). The new people coming into your life have no idea who you are, so feel free to playfully create an accurate picture for them. You’ll do quite a lot in the name of fun! THURSDAY’S BIRTHDAY (Feb. 19). You put people at ease, and for this rea- son, many want you on their team. In fact, they’ll fight over you in March. April will bring a restructuring of your work life followed by a windfall. You’ll trade places with a good friend in June and will decide you like your situation better. Love is the main deal over the summer. Cancer and Libra people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 4, 28, 17, 44 and 19.
