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Wednesday, May 20, 2015 PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK East Oregonian Page 7A DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Mom fears news of ex’s abuse will cause split with her son FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE BEETLE BAILEY BY MORT WALKER GARFIELD BLONDIE BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE Dear Abby: My daughter, “Meg,” Dear Abby: Six months ago I was sexually abused at the age of 3 by ran across an ad from a woman in her father 25 years ago. “Emile” and I prison who was looking for a pen were divorced, but he had every other SDO +DYLQJ VHUYHG WLPH LQ WKH SDVW weekend visitation. After returning I know how it feels to be locked up from one visit, she said, “Daddy put and wanting contact with the outside KLV¿QJHULQWKHUH,WKXUW,FULHG´+HU world, be it friends, family, etc. I words forever changed my life. wrote her and she wrote back, and we After we made countless trips to exchanged pictures. Jeanne the children’s hospital and numerous Phillips I am twice her age. I tried to get therapists, a judge allowed supervised permission to visit her but was denied Advice visitation. It happened again, but because I had served prior jail time. Emile told the judge he was “putting Our communication has been emails, PHGLFLQHRQKHU´+HUHPDUULHGVKRUWO\DIWHU letters and phone calls. I buy her things, and and lost interest in Meg and her brother, she is appreciative of everything I have done “Ian,” which was a blessing to me, but he’d for her. visit with them occasionally. She says she wants to be with me when Emile spent years belittling me and telling she gets out, which is not far off, and I’d love lies to the kids about me, but I stayed busy for it to happen, but I don’t know how my with two jobs and raised them by myself. daughters will react because she’s their age. Meg has no relationship with her father, but Right now it’s friendship, but I know it could her brother does. quickly evolve into love. I have prayed about Ian is now expecting a child and knows it. All the signs keep saying we are good for nothing about the abuse his sister suffered. I each other. Abby, what to do? — A Genera- have tried raising the subject with Meg, but tion Older she won’t discuss it. I’m afraid if I tell Ian, Dear G.O.,I\RXFDQ¿QGRXWIURPWKH it will cause a breach in our relationship and warden what the woman is incarcerated for. I’m not sure he would believe me. But how (Could it have been for conning people? do I NOT tell him? Please advise me. — Armed robbery?) Close your wallet and see Worried Sick In Louisiana how your “pen” pal reacts, because you may Dear Worried Sick: Sit your son and his not be her only benefactor. VSRXVHGRZQDQGWHOOWKHP(9(5<7+,1* After she has been released, there’s no 7KH\ QHHG WR NQRZ ZKDW *UDQGSDWREH LV guarantee your relationship will evolve into capable of. Because it has been kept a secret love. In fact, she could have a change of heart for so long, it’s sure to be a shock, so don’t be about committing to someone who’s old surprised if they react with disbelief. If they enough to be her father. Please stop and look want proof, show them any court records or both ways before proceeding further. other documents you may have. Whatever Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van happens after that, your conscience should be Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and clear, because you will have done your duty was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. as a mother, and they will have been given Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com fair warning. or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069. DAYS GONE BY 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian May 20, 1915 After having been partially paralized through being struck by lightning last Sunday night Miss Eva Mays is reported today as recovering. She was riding in a hack carrying an umbrella at the time and it is thought she did not receive the full force of the shock or she would have been killed. According to C.W. Brown, of Coombs canyon who was at the Wright place today Miss Mays was partic ularly injured about one hand and her mouth. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian May 20, 1965 -RH+DZNLQVGRHVQ¶WH[SHFWPXFKFRPSH tition in a business he and his brothers in Texas may start — a rattlesnake farm. The retired rancher, who came to this area in 1918, just returned from rattlesnake hunts in Big Springs DQG $PDULOOR 7H[DV DQG 2NHHQ 2NOD +H said 20,000 people turned out and caught almost 4,000 snakes. “The venom is worth DQRXQFH´+DZNLQVVDLG³,WWDNHVDERXW VQDNHVWR\LHOGDQRXQFH´+HVDLGKHDQG his brothers, Ed and Don, Amarillo, seriously plan to start a rattlesnake ranch and market the GHDGO\YHQRP+HVDLGLWKDVPDQ\PHGLFDO XVHV+DZNLQVVDLGKHFDXJKWDERXWVQDNHV himself during the hunts. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian May 20, 1990 Potential teen parents need earlier sex education, better role models and a strong shot RIUHDOLW\WHHQDJHUVWROGORFDODQGVWDWHRI¿ cials at a meeting on teen parenting. The only young man on the panel, which also included the mother of his child, said sex education VKRXOG VWDUW LQ WKLUG DQG IRXUWK JUDGH +H QRWHG WKDW \RXQJHU HOHPHQWDU\ VFKRRODJHG children now are receiving drug abuse educa tion that a few years ago was limited to high school students, and was considered by some to encourage drug use. One girl suggested a program in which high school students could serve as positive role models. “Take a baby and its mother into the school and show these kids. They are not too young to understand; they will listen. If you don’t address the issue, WKH\¶OO¿QGRXWWKHPVHOYHV´VKHVDLG THIS DAY IN HISTORY DILBERT THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN Today is the 140th day of 2015. There are 225 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 20, 1915, Israeli VROGLHUVWDWHVPDQ 0RVKH Dayan was born at Deganya Alef Kibbutz. 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Actress Mindy Cohn is 49. 5RFNPXVLFLDQ7RP*RUPDQ %HOO\ LV $FWUHVV *LQD Ravera is 49. Actor Timothy Olyphant is 47. Rapper Busta Rhymes is 43. Thought for Today: “If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.” — Moshe Dayan (1915-1981). BY JAN ELLIOT BY LINCOLN PEIRCE