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East Oregonian
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Friday, November 6, 2015
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Family offers little sympathy
after online boyfriend’s death
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
years ago. Mom currently lives with
Dear Abby: I am a 20-year-old
my husband and me. We have a
woman. A few months ago, my
great relationship with her, and she
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never speaks ill of my father. She has
committed suicide. I feel absolutely
moved on, found a new direction in
destroyed.
life and a new boyfriend we all like
The problem is, my family doesn’t
very much.
regard my feelings of grief seriously
Dad moved in with the woman
because our relationship was started
he cheated on Mom with, but their
and maintained online. We lived
Jeanne
several states apart, and while we Phillips relationship fell apart. He has never
stopped speaking ill of Mom. When
never met in person, we talked every
Advice
things aren’t going well for him, he
night and video-chatted many, many
causes trouble by showing up at
times. My feelings for him were real.
I broke down when I heard the news, and Mom’s workplace and making a scene. He’ll
I still hurt, but my family thinks I’m over- also come over to our house unannounced to
reacting. They can’t understand how a rela- talk badly about her.
He was a great father until a few years
tionship with someone online can be serious.
How can I make them recognize how much ago when all this trouble started. I feel torn
pain I’m in? The fact they refuse to recognize between trying to continue a relationship
this loss hurts me so much more. What do I with him or cutting him out of my life like a
bad daughter. What should I do? — Caught
do? — All Alone In Louisiana
Dear All Alone: Please accept my In The Middle In California
Dear Caught: Your father’s behavior
sympathy for the loss of someone you cared
about so deeply. That your parents would is sick. Depending upon how disruptive
minimize your feelings is sad, but it says he is when he shows up at your mother’s
more about them and their level of sensitivity workplace, suggest she consider getting
than the depth of your relationship with him. a restraining order preventing him from
Many serious relationships have started acting out that way. She must have a very
online, and marriages as well, and I under- understanding employer to have tolerated
stand you are left mourning all the things that it, because that kind of disruption has been
known to cost people their jobs.
might have been.
And when your dad shows up at your
At 20, you are no longer a child. You can
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your clergyperson, if you have one, or look and your husband don’t like it. Make clear
online for a grief support group you can join. that his nasty comments about your mother
There you will be able to safely vent about aren’t welcome, and neither will he be, unless
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everyone. His misbehavior continues because
what you are experiencing right now.
Dear Abby: My parents divorced four you have allowed it.
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 6, 1915
Bitten by a mad dog, which he later killed
after it had run amuck and become a real
menace, Finis Kirkpatrick, son of R.F. Kirk-
patrick, is now receiving treatment to coun-
teract any danger of the development of the
dread disease through the laceration. Young
Kirkpatrick was attacked by the dog Thursday
afternoon at his father’s ranch on the reserva-
tion north of the agency. The animal, a female
Airedale, had come to the ranch twice during
the morning and had acted strangely. During
the afternoon it came back and savagely
attacked the hogs and chickens on the ranch,
then killed two Shepherd puppies and bit their
mother and attacked another dog savagely.
Kirkpatrick came to the rescue of his dogs
barehanded and it was while trying to pull the
mad brute away that he was bitten on the arm.
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and shot the animal.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 6, 1965
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whether it was a torrid love letter or a care-
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out in a curb side mail box across the street
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afternoon. Quick action by the Pendleton
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any mail from being destroyed. Postmaster
Lynn Ranney said only a couple of letters
were scorched around the edges. Workmen
at Shafer Radiator located nearby saw smoke
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department. A cloth bag, which is hung inside
the metal box to catch the letters, had been
burning for some time, Ranney said.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 6, 1990
As the process to form a new Eastern
Oregon mule deer management plan gains
speed, the very real possibility of total limited
entry appears to be emerging as the state’s
solution of choice. That’s a solution that had
many avid hunters and interested audience
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Pendleton Monday on the draft of a Mule Deer
Management Plan. Opposition to the plan was
voiced by many of the nearly 100 people who
attended the hearing — ranging from charges
that public comments have no bearing on the
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policies will be ineffective as long as habitat
management is out of the Oregon Department
of Fish and Wildlife’s control.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
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BY SCOTT ADAMS
BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
Today is the 310th day of
2015. There are 55 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On Nov. 6, 1860, former
Illinois
congressman
Abraham Lincoln defeated
three other candidates for the
presidency: John Breckin-
ridge, John Bell and Stephen
Douglas.
On this date:
In 1632, King Gustavus
Adolphus of Sweden was
killed in battle.
In 1854, America’s
“March King,” John Philip
Sousa, was born in Wash-
ington, D.C.
In 1861, Confederate
President Jefferson Davis
was elected to a six-year
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results
of
Republican
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Democrat Alfred E. Smith
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wraparound sign on the New
York Times building.
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approved dissolving their
two-chamber
legislature
in favor of a nonpartisan,
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legislative body, which was
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Lord Moyne was assassi-
nated in Cairo, Egypt, by
members of the Zionist Stern
gang.
In
1956,
President
Dwight D. Eisenhower won
re-election, defeating Demo-
crat Adlai E. Stevenson.
In
1962,
Democrat
Edward M. Kennedy was
elected Senator from Massa-
chusetts.
In 1977, 39 people were
killed when the Kelly Barnes
Dam burst, sending a wall of
water through Toccoa Falls
College in Georgia.
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of the Universal Studios
backlot in southern Cali-
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Birthdays:
Actress June Squibb is 86.
Country singer Stonewall
Jackson is 83. Singer Eugene
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Singer P.J. Proby is 77.
Country singer Guy Clark is
74. Actress Sally Field is 69.
Pop singer-musician Glenn
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Singer Rory Block is 66. Jazz
musician Arturo Sandoval is
66. TV host Catherine Crier is
61. News correspondent and
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Maria Shriver is 60. Actress
Lori Singer is 58. Actor Lance
Kerwin is 55. Rock musician
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is 52. Education Secretary
Arne Duncan is 51. Actor
Ethan Hawke is 45. Basket-
ball player Lamar Odom is
36. Actress Emma Stone is 27.
Thought for Today: “The
illiterate of the future will not
be the person who cannot
read. It will be the person who
does not know how to learn.”
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