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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Wednesday, August 31, 2016 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Woman can’t make the break from her decades-long affair 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: I have been dating a accepted term for people who are married man for 30 years. Our rela- sex-repulsed or who don’t experience tionship started a few months after he sexual attraction. I it both of those got married. I know it was wrong to deinitions. begin the relationship, but it started People want to know what’s wrong just as a way for me to get sexual with me: Is it a hormonal imbalance? experience. For him, I think he was Was I molested? Am I secretly infatuated with the idea that a younger gay? One man even suggested that woman found him attractive. sleeping with him would “ix me”! Jeanne I asked him out knowing he was Phillips If it comes up around family, they married, thus safe from expecting a always suggest that someone will Advice commitment. I don’t think either of us come around and change my mind. expected our so-called relationship to Abby, is 25 years old too young to last this long. I have dated other men (who know for sure that I don’t want to have sex? knew nothing of him) and gave birth to a How can I respond to these rude comments? child (not his), so it’s not like he’s the only — Ace In South Carolina man I see. (Of course, he knows I date other Dear Ace: Twenty-ive is deinitely old men.) enough to know for sure whether you have Many times I have thought about ending a sex drive — or not. Because you are open our affair because I feel guilty, and sad for about your lack of interest in sex, you should his wife. My problem is our conversations not become defensive if someone asks an are intoxicating, our kisses, touches and love- ignorant question about it. making are like no other. Must I stop seeing If the person asks if it’s a hormonal imbal- him? Or do you think what others don’t know ance, the result of having been molested or won’t hurt them? — Can’t Stop Seeing Him if you are gay, all you have to say is, “Nope, Dear Can’t Stop: The problem with the nope and nope!” As to the man who confused rationale “what others don’t know won’t hurt his member with a magic wand, “No, them” is that, at some point, the truth usually thanks!” would have been a polite response comes out. And when it does, there are to an obviously deluded individual. usually plenty of hurt feelings. Frankly, I’m Dear Abby: I would love to see you refer surprised your lover has been able to keep to couples without children as “child-free” you under wraps for 30 years without the two instead of “childless.” Not every couple of you being spotted somewhere. wants to have children. The term “childless” If you are truly sad for your lover’s wife, sounds like something is missing. — Free In you should end the affair. However, because Massachusetts it has taken you three decades to discover Dear Free: You make a good point. But I your conscience, I somehow doubt you will. usually couch my terminology according to Dear Abby: I’m an asexual woman in what the writer has stated. If someone refers my 20s, and I feel misunderstood. When I to her- or himself as childless, I feel it would “come out” to people, they usually make a be wrong to imply something the person rude or vulgar comment. “Asexual” is the didn’t. DAYS GONE BY 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 31, 1916 Crooks, pickpockets and weary willies of the underworld will have a poor chance for operation in Pendleton during the Round-Up, September 21, 22 and 23. In addition to the regular Pendleton police force and specials there will be a large delegation of wearers of the star from all of the principal cities of the northwest. A number of Portland, Seattle, Spokane, Boise and Tacoma detectives who are familiar with the faces of most of the crooks in the northwest have written president T.D. Taylor of the Round-Up that they will be here to assist in keeping order. In addition to the police and detectives the annual convention of the North Paciic Coast Railroad special agents and policemen will be held in Pend- leton during the three days of the show. This accounts largely for the absence of crime in the city during the show. The announcement that the northwest Sherlocks will be among those present has had a tendency to cause the crooks to move elsewhere. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 31, 1966 U.S. Army Sgt. Lester B. Cochran, 20, Pendleton, has been wounded again in ighting in Viet Nam, his father, Ted Cochran of Pend- leton, said today. Sgt. Cochran a few months ago was hit in the back by Viet Cong mortar shrapnel. This time he was wounded in the leg. He will return to the United States now to spend about four months in a Portland hospital, his father said. Sgt. Cochran, whose wife, Loretta Cochran, lives in Vancouver, Wash., has been in the Army about two years. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 31, 1991 About 4,500 gallons of diesel fuel was spilled about four miles east of Pendleton early this morning, after a spectacular crash involving a tractor trailer and an unattended car on Interstate 84. There were no injuries in the accident, which occurred at about 2:20 a.m. at milepost 213.9. A diesel tanker driven by Teddy Myers of La Grande was eastbound, driving close to the fog line when he came upon an unattended vehicle parked on the shoulder, according to Oregon State Police records. Myers swerved to avoid the car, and the tanker trailer’s rear tires ran over the top of the 1978 Chevrolet four door, severing the rear axle from the trailer. The trailer landed in a ield adjacent to the highway. The diesel was spilled on the highway and in the barrow pit, and was contained in a small area, according to Rich Duval, an environmental specialist with the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality. 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 244th day of 2016. There are 122 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Aug. 31, 1886, an earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 7.3 devastated Charleston, South Carolina, killing at least 60 people, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. On this date: In 1881, the irst U.S. tennis championships (for men only) began in Newport, Rhode Island. In 1916, the musical revue “The Big Show,” featuring the song “Poor Butterly” by Raymond Hubbell and John Golden, opened at New York’s Hippodrome. In 1939, the irst issue of Marvel Comics, featuring the Human Torch, was published by Timely Publi- cations in New York. In 1941, the radio program “The Great Gild- ersleeve,” a spinoff from “Fibber McGee and Molly” starring Harold Peary, debuted on NBC. In 1954, Hurricane Carol hit the northeastern Atlantic states; Connecticut, Rhode Island and part of Massa- chusetts bore the brunt of the storm, which resulted in some 70 deaths. In 1972, at the Munich Summer Olympics, Amer- ican swimmer Mark Spitz won his fourth and ifth gold medals in the 100-meter butterly and 800-meter freestyle relay; Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut won gold medals in loor exercise and the balance beam. In 1980, Poland’s Soli- darity labor movement was born with an agreement signed in Gdansk that ended a 17-day-old strike. Today’s Birthdays: Japanese monster movie actor Katsumi Tezuka is 104. Baseball Hall-of- Famer Frank Robinson is 81. Actor Warren Berlinger is 79. Rock musician Jerry Allison (Buddy Holly and the Crickets) is 77. Actor Jack Thompson is 76. Violinist Itzhak Perlman is 71. Singer Van Morrison is 71. Rock musician Rudolf Schenker (The Scorpions) is 68. Actor Richard Gere is 67. Olympic gold medal track and ield athlete Edwin Moses is 61. Rock musician Gina Schock (The Go-Go’s) is 59. Baseball pitcher Hideo Nomo is 48. Actor Chris Tucker is 44. Thought for Today: “Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.” — William Saroyan, Amer- ican author (1908-1981). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
