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B6 East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Friday, December 21, 2018 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Transgender man has kept full story from his parents FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I’m a transgen- bigger person,” not give up and “just der male who has grown up in an keep trying.” I married recently and invited her to the wedding. She tex- area where many people discourage ted 48 hours beforehand to indicate such things. They view what I am she would not be there. I’m won- as a sin and me as a sinful, satanic dering, is it OK to stop trying now? child. My parents are against any- thing different, including the LGBT I mean, how much of this should community. one person be forced to take? — J eanne Just About Done Trying I have already gone through top P hilliPs Dear Just About Done: I see surgery, but they don’t know about ADVICE nothing to be gained by continu- it. What they do know is that I am ing to tolerate your mother’s pas- bisexual. How do I tell them that I sive aggression. If you are asking am male? — Sinful Child for my permission to stop doing all the work Dear “Sinful” Child: Why do you want in the relationship, I am pleased to give it to to make an announcement? You know what you now. will happen the minute you do. If you feel Dear Abby: I have socialized with a you must say something, say that you have group of women for the past 20 years. Our discovered your true self, which is male, and connection has always been our children. that you are happier now than you have ever Now the children are grown and gone, one been. woman in our group keeps trying to include After you do that you will be free. You spouses each time we get together. can then start building a family comprised My husband works long hours. He of people who are understanding and accept- ing, which will be healthier for you than the doesn’t enjoy being with these men, and he one you were born into. doesn’t want to go on these outings. I have Dear Abby: My mother and I have been sympathized with him because I don’t like estranged for many years for multiple rea- the changes either. I’d prefer these events sons. She has bad-mouthed me in emails to stay girlfriends-only. I have gone solo a other relatives and then denied having done few times and stayed away a few times. But it, invited my ex-husband to family birth- my friends are commenting now, and I feel day parties knowing I wouldn’t show up if stuck and uncomfortable. Do you have any suggestions? — No Fan in Minnesota he was there, and gone months, sometimes Dear No Fan: Yes, be honest. Level with years, without speaking to me over things your women friends and say you prefer she has perceived as slights. socializing with them without the husbands. I have tried many times to walk away You are entitled to your feelings, and you do and let the situation go, but I continue being not have to elaborate further. urged by other family members to “be the 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. 21, 1918 The past 24 hours has shown the great- est number of influenza cases yet reported since Pendleton started enforcing the quar- antine, and the total number of homes under quarantine in the city has jumped to 65. The new cases number 20, while but three have been released from quarantine in the same time. Fortunately with the large increase in the disease it seems no severe cases have developed, as Quarantine Officer Breach reports all seem to be mild, and by care it is hoped there will be no deaths resulting. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Dec. 21, 1968 Two robbers, one of them armed and possibly both, held up Ron Perry, assis- tant manager at Albertson’s Grocery at 8:20 p.m. last night, forced him to open the safe and the cash registers, locked him in the produce cooler, and escaped with about $3,000 in cash. Perry said he locked up for the night, glanced at his watch and noted it was 8:20, and was accosted by a masked man outside the store before he had gone 10 feet. The man, wearing a grotesque Hallowe’en mask over his face, pointed a nickel plated or chrome revolver at him, and forced him to reopen the store. Inside, another man who had apparently hidden in the store before it was closed for the night joined the robber, but kept in the back- ground, and shielded his face. The money was placed in an egg carton and then the man forced Perry to go into the locker. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Dec. 21, 1993 The Morrow County School District voted to consolidate junior high and high school students in Heppner but won’t be returning a high school to Irrigon. When the district announced plans to put a bond issue before the voters in March to pay for enlarging schools in Boardman and Irri- gon and improving aging buildings in the south end, Irrigon residents pushed for the return of their high school. Since the Irri- gon High School closed more than 20 years ago, junior high students in the two towns have attended in Irrigon and high school students have attended in Boardman. The school board voted on Monday to con- tinue that arrangement, but it was a diffi- cult decision. 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 355th day of 2018. There are 10 days left in the year. Winter arrives at 5:23 p.m. Eastern time. On this date: In 1620, Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower went ashore for the first time at present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts. In 1913, the first newspa- per crossword puzzle, billed as a “Word-Cross Puzzle,” was published in the New York World. In 1937, Walt Dis- ney’s first animated feature, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” had its world pre- miere at the Carthay Circle Theater in Los Angeles. The first Dr. Seuss book, “And to Think That I Saw It on Mul- berry Street,” was published by Vanguard Press. In 1945, U.S. Army Gen. George S. Patton, 60, died in Heidelberg, Germany, 12 days after being seriously injured in a car accident. In 1968, Apollo 8 was launched on a mission to orbit the moon. In 1969, Vince Lombardi coached his last football game as his team, the Wash- ington Redskins, lost to the Dallas Cowboys, 20-10. In 1988, 270 people were killed when a terrorist bomb exploded aboard a Pam Am Boeing 747 over Lockerbie, Scotland, sending wreckage crashing to the ground. In 2002, President George W. Bush received a small- pox vaccination, fulfilling a promise he’d made when he ordered inoculations for about a half-million U.S. troops. Today’s Birthdays: Talk show host Phil Donahue is 83. Actress Jane Fonda is 81. Actor Josh Mostel is 72. Actor Samuel L. Jackson is 70. Rock singer Nick Gilder is 68. Movie producer Jeffrey Katzenberg is 68. Actor-co- median Ray Romano is 61. Treasury Secretary Ste- ven Mnuchin is 56. Country singer Christy Forester (The Forester Sisters) is 56. Rock musician Murph (The Lem- onheads; Dinosaur Jr.) is 54. Actor-comedian Andy Dick is 53. Rock musician Gabri- elle Glaser is 53. Actress Michelle Hurd is 52. Coun- try singer-musician Rhean (rehn) Boyer (Carolina Rain) is 48. Contemporary Chris- tian singer Natalie Grant is 47. Actor Glenn Fitzgerald is 47. Singer-musician Brett Scallions is 47. Country singer Luke Stricklin is 36. Thought for Today: “Winter comes but once a year, And when it comes it brings the doctor good cheer.” — Ogden Nash, American humorist (1902-1971). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
