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Tuesday, May 29, 2018 PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK East Oregonian Page 9A DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Family urges bride to choose flaky cousin as maid of honor FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE BEETLE BAILEY BY MORT WALKER Dear Abby: I have an extremely what is not. difficult decision to make. I recently I recently met someone I really got engaged to the love of my life. like, but I’m not sure if he feels the However, with this comes the deci- same way. I have never felt this sion of who should be my maid of way about anyone before, and I am honor. scared I’ll mess it up. I don’t want Until a couple of years ago, the to be alone and I’m afraid that’s choice was obvious — my cousin. what is going to happen to me. Jeanne Over the past couple of years, I am not sure how to interact though, we’ve become distant. Phillips with other gay guys. It took me so Advice She’s an extremely flaky person and long to come out, I don’t want it to can’t be counted on for much. Now, take forever to find someone. How I also have a best friend who is always there do I get over this fear of being alone and be when I need her, but we’ve been friends for comfortable around guys? — Feeling Lost only a couple of years. In Massachusetts My immediate family says I should still Dear Feeling Lost: Make a conscious ask my cousin to be my maid of honor decision to relax and just be yourself because her feelings will be hurt if I don’t. because it isn’t necessary to be anyone but Abby, I don’t want to give such a special who you are. In time, you will realize there title to someone I can no longer depend on. are as many kinds of relationships in the She has hurt my feelings countless times by gay community as there are in the straight not being there. She shouldn’t get the honor community. Some men are looking for just because I’ve known her forever. Please casual hookups while others want the same help. — Stuck At A Crossroads Dear Stuck: Talk to your cousin and kind of solid, lasting relationship you do. Because you are confused about “how also your best friend. When you do, remind to fit into the gay community,” you might your cousin there are serious responsibil- find guidance if you contact the nearest gay ities that go along with being a maid of and lesbian center and join one of their talk honor and ask if they would create a prob- lem for her. Tell her that if it’s too much for groups. One that’s comprised of individu- her, she could be a bridesmaid. If she says als who are “newly out” would be perfect she wants to be maid of honor, give her for you. Dear Abby: I feel much more comfort- the chance. However, if she flakes EVEN able eating gluten-free. But it creates prob- ONCE, ask your best friend to step in. Dear Abby: Last year I came out as a lems when I’m invited to the homes of gay man. I’m 35, and it was a very diffi- friends. What’s the best way to deal with my dietary restrictions when invited to cult decision. I haven’t been in a relationship with a these affairs? — Restricted Eater Dear Restricted: If catering to your man before and have dated only women up until now. I have been on a few dates, and dietary restrictions is a problem for your I feel like I fall too fast and easy for a guy. host, deal with it by asking if he or she will I’m struggling to fit into the gay commu- be serving salad and bring something with nity and understand what is acceptable and you that you can eat with it. DAYS GONE BY GARFIELD BLONDIE DILBERT BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE BY SCOTT ADAMS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian May 28-29, 1918 Damage amounting to approximately $25,000 was caused in Heppner yesterday afternoon by fire which started from a box of hot ashes in the rear of the Opera house building. Dick Johns, of Monument, who recently engaged in the garage business in this city, was badly burned about the face and head and is in a serious condition. B.G. Sigsbee, who conducted a photograph stu- dio in the second floor of the opera house and Oscar Otto, music store proprietor, were in the studio when the fire started and were cut off from the stairway. They were rescued from the high window with difficulty. They sustained slight burns and were almost over- come by heat and smoke. A wind storm pre- vailed during the fire and had the wind not changed from the northwest into the east the entire town probably would have been wiped out. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian May 28-29, 1968 Voluntarily going back to Vietnam for seven months more of service with 3d Bat- talion, 1st Marines, is Cpl. Roesch Kish- paugh, 22, here on leave with relatives. The decision came despite 80 days in the bush, rigors of field warfare, including 57 days without a bath, and many days of substance on only C rations. Kishpaugh, who joined up two years ago, has spent 14 months in the Asian area, and as a member of the Marine Battalion Landing Team was based on the ship Valley Forge. The six-footer went down to 155 pounds while in the bush, regained 10 pounds, a pound a day, on leave in the Philippines, and intends to store up pound- age until going back to Vietnam June 6. His 30 day leave here was granted as a reward for his promised return to Vietnam, instead of remaining on a U.S. base. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian May 28-29, 1993 It has taken a full year of pounding nails, hanging sheet rock and pouring concrete for the house at Southwest 45th Street to fully take shape. But Pendleton High School senior Cody Holmes says he remembers construction “started with nothing but dirt and weeds.” For Holmes and the 13 other graduating seniors who began building the five-bedroom, three-bathroom home in Sep- tember, its completion coincides with the end of their high school education. Students have worked diligently on the house for two hours a day throughout the school year. But in just three weeks, the formal amenities of linoleum and carpet will replace the exposed flooring, the brown primer-stained exterior will get a paint job, and eventually a family will move in. THIS DAY IN HISTORY THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN On May 29, 1953, Mount Everest was conquered as Edmund Hillary of New Zea- land and Tensing Norgay of Nepal became the first climb- ers to reach the summit. In 1765, Patrick Henry denounced the Stamp Act before Virginia’s House of Burgesses. In 1790, Rhode Island became the 13th original colony to ratify the United States Constitution. In 1932, World War I veterans began arriving in Washington to demand cash bonuses they weren’t sched- uled to receive until 1945. In 1961, a couple in Paynesville, West Virginia, became the first recipients of food stamps under a pilot program created by President John F. Kennedy. In 1988, President Ron- ald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev opened their historic summit in Moscow. Today’s Birthdays: For- mer Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent is 80. Movie composer Danny Elfman is 65. Singer LaToya Jack- son is 62. Actor Ted Levine is 61. Actor Rupert Everett is 59. Singer Melissa Ether- idge is 57. Cartoonist Aaron McGruder (“The Boon- docks”) is 44. Singer Mel- anie Brown (Spice Girls) is 43. Actor Billy Flynn is 33. Actor Blake Foster is 33. Actress Riley Keough is 29. Actor Brandon Mychal Smith is 29. Actress Lorelei Linklater is 25. Thought for Today: “A pessimist and an opti- mist, so much the worse; so much the better.” — Jean de La Fontaine, French poet (1621-1695). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
