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B6 East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Thursday, December 13, 2018 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Wife can no longer endure vicious tales man’s ex tells FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I have been with years. My husband and I have a my husband for five years, and great marriage, but last week my father was diagnosed with stage we have two children together. 4 cancer, and I’m having trouble It’s my husband’s second marriage processing it. My husband is super and my first. He and his first wife, supportive and has had my back “Gretchen,” had no kids, but they 100 percent. But yesterday I woke did have a long and messy divorce. up and a friend of mine wanted to She and her family live in the same meet with me and we ended up small town as we do. Her favorite J eanne P hilliPs having sex. pastime is telling anyone who will ADVICE What’s wrong with me? I have listen that my husband physically never cheated before. I have been abused and raped her. cheated on in the past, and I know I know my husband. In our how much it hurt, so I vowed never to do it. five years together he has never so much But it just happened. I regret what I did, and as raised his voice to me or our children. I feel gross. Why would I do this? Is it my I don’t presume to know what happened way of coping with Dad’s illness? I need to between him and Gretchen during their understand what the hell happened. Please marriage, but I know in my heart it never help. — Off the Rails got physical. I have spent five years listen- ing to this garbage and hearing her put him Dear Off: I, too, suspect that your infi- delity may be related to trying to deal with down and say nasty things about me. I have your father’s diagnosis. It is not as unusual reached my limit. Should I confront her or as you may think for people to react to just keep refusing to acknowledge her? — grief, trauma or death by doing something Drama With His Ex uncharacteristic. However, if this becomes Dear Drama: You know that what your your default coping mechanism, discuss husband’s ex is saying isn’t true because it with a licensed psychotherapist so it you have been with your husband long doesn’t destroy your marriage. enough to see the kind of person he is. Con- P.S. Unplanned sexual encounters can tinue to ignore and avoid her. If someone have unplanned consequences. To make repeats her stories, tell them that in your sure this one hasn’t, contact your doc- experience what she’s saying couldn’t be tor about being checked for an STD. And further from the truth. People who know consider coming clean to your husband, you will understand what Gretchen’s say- ing for what it is — unhappiness and because it would be disastrous if your vindictiveness. friend let the truth slip out accidentally. Dear Abby: I’m at a loss and need some (And, of course, if you’ve developed an STD, tell your husband right away.) outside advice. I’m a man, married for two 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 Dec. 13, 1918 On November 10, just one day before the end of the war, Frank Sheldon Ulrich, the first Pendleton-born boy to be killed in action, made the supreme sacrifice on the battlefields of France, according to a tele- gram received from the war office last night by his father, Franck Ulrich, of this city. Ulrich, who enlisted last summer as a member of the United States Marines, immediately after his graduation in the class of 1917 from the Pendleton high school, would have been 21 years of age next Sun- day, December 15, He left here with Clell Brown, Pendleton boy who was wounded in France, and the two were together at Mare Island and Quantico, Virginia, and went to France on the same transport. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Dec. 13, 1968 City police lost little time in solving one of the Christmas tree lighting thefts and vandalism Wednesday when they appre- hended a 16-year-old boy and then learned he had been accompanied by a 13-year-old and a 17-year-old boy. The three, who were involved in the theft of outdoor lights from the Carl Duchek place earlier in the week, were turned over the juvenile authorities. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Dec. 13, 1993 A 23-year-old man awaiting sentencing on robbery, assault and menacing convic- tions broke his ankle in a bungled escape attempt Sunday morning when he jumped from the roof of the Umatilla County Jail. Beacher F. Noble of Milton-Freewater cut his way through the southeast corner of a fenced recreation area atop the jail, then dropped off the south end of the court- house roof to a lower level. From there he attempted a leap into a tree. It’s not known when Noble broke his ankle during the attempted escape that started at about 9:10 a.m. Sunday. Noble was apprehended shortly after his escape at the Hachler Building at Southeast Fourth and Dorion Avenue. 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 347th day of 2018. There are 18 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 13, 2003, Saddam Hussein was cap- tured by U.S. forces while hiding in a hole under a farmhouse in Adwar, Iraq, near his hometown of Tikrit. On this date: In 1918, President Woodrow Wilson arrived in France, becoming the first chief executive to visit Europe while in office. In 1944, during World War II, the light cruiser USS Nashville was badly dam- aged in a Japanese kamikaze attack off Negros Island in the Philippines that claimed 133 lives. In 1978, the Philadel- phia Mint began stamping the Susan B. Anthony dol- lar, which went into circula- tion the following July. In 1981, authorities in Poland imposed martial law in a crackdown on the Sol- idarity labor movement. (Martial law formally ended in 1983.) In 2000, Republican George W. Bush claimed the presidency a day after the U.S. Supreme Court shut down further recounts of disputed ballots in Flor- ida; Democrat Al Gore con- ceded, delivering a call for national unity. In 2002, Cardinal Ber- nard Law resigned as Bos- ton archbishop because of the priest sex abuse scandal. Today’s Birthdays: Former Secretary of State George P. Shultz is 98. Actor-comedian Dick Van Dyke is 93. Music/film producer Lou Adler is 85. Singer John Davidson is 77. Actress Kathy Garver (TV: “Family Affair”) is 73. Singer Ted Nugent is 70. Actor Robert Lindsay is 69. Country singer-mu- sician Randy Owen is 69. Actress Wendie Malick is 68. Former Agriculture Sec- retary Tom Vilsack is 68. Singer-actor Morris Day is 62. Actor Steve Bus- cemi is 61. Actress-reality TV star NeNe Leakes is 52. Actor-comedian Jamie Foxx is 51. Actor Bart Johnson is 48. Actor Jeffrey Pierce is 47. TV personality Debbie Matenopoulos is 44. Rock singer-musician Thomas Delonge is 43. Rock singer Amy Lee (Evanescence) is 37. Actor Michael Socha is 31. Neo-soul musician Wesley Watkins (Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats) is 31. Singer Taylor Swift is 29. Thought for Today: “To know how to say what oth- ers only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers — or both.” — Elizabeth Charles, British writer (1828-1896). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
