THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2015
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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
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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.
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I said no, he would lose respect for
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.