A12 East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Wednesday, April 17, 2019 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Wife discovers digital trail left by man having affair FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE BEETLE BAILEY BY MORT WALKER Dear Abby: My husband went closure and hard work to rebuild to his 45th class reunion a state trust. It will happen more quickly with professional help. If it doesn’t away and hooked up with a class- mate. Over the next few months it work, then may be the time to “cut went from talking and texting to your losses.” Only you can decide her sending him nude pictures of whether your marriage has been irretrievably broken. herself. Dear Abby: I was diagnosed I found her emails professing her J eanne with cancer two years ago. I had love to him. When I asked him, he P hilliPs surgery and radiation treatment, swore nothing happened between ADVICE and although my recovery was them during the two weeks he was slow, I am doing well now. there other than a lunch date. After About a year ago, a co-worker further investigation, I have dis- covered they had more than 30 hours of was diagnosed with breast cancer. Our phone conversations, exchanged 4,000-plus other co-workers raised a large sum of texts and who knows the number of emails. money for her to be used at a spa. They Not only that, he bought another phone so I have also offered her emotional support via could no longer see the interactions on our phone calls, texts, visits and cards. While shared cell account. I don’t begrudge her the gifts and support, I’m very hurt that all I received was a hand- He finally admitted they did have a sex- ful of cards, an occasional phone call or ual encounter. He has now agreed to end all text and one visit from one person. Only contact with her and work on our marriage. one of my co-workers stuck by me through He has apologized, but I’m struggling to everything. believe him because every time I found I see these people all the time, and I’m damning evidence, he would make up having a hard time with my hurt feelings. another excuse or blame it all on her. How- ever, he never told her to stop or blocked Any thoughts on how I can move on? As her. a sidebar, these people are always the first Is it time to cut my losses, or should I ones to ask me for help and support at work. — Hurt in the East wait to see if he does this again? Why do Dear Hurt: There is nothing to be people think having affairs is a good thing? gained by nursing this disappointment. — Confused in Montana You and this woman are different peo- Dear Confused: People who think an ple and likely have different relationships affair is a good thing for a marriage are with these co-workers. If you don’t want deluding themselves. An affair only adds to help the people you feel gave you short to the problems the couple was trying to shrift by comparison, you are free not to. ignore. But if you intend to continue working at It’s time for you and your husband to the place you now do, recognize that it make an appointment with a licensed mar- riage and family therapist. Marriages can is time to put this behind you and move forward. survive infidelity, but it takes time, full dis- DAYS GONE BY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian April 17, 1919 Do you know that Pendleton, Ore., and Cheyenne, Wyo., and Amarillo, Tex., are leading fashion centers? Not one yip does the cowboy dandy care for the fashion arbi- ters of New York, Paris and London. Not one whoop does he care whether tweeds or cheviots will be the rage in men’s fashions this season. Frock coats and malacca sticks, silk hats and dress suits, silk hose, foulard ties, cashmere trousers and patent leather shoes, pongee and panama — mean abso- lutely nothing in his life. William S. Hart, Beau Brummel of the west, cavalier of the range, is the joy of the Western fashion dic- tators. Boots and spurs, horses and saddles, chaps and Stetsons, shirt and neckerchief, leather and corduroy, rope and six shooter, interest him far more than the styles in “store clothes” this season. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian April 17, 1969 Lee Abney, an aircraft mechanic who builds small planes as a hobby, told the Stanfield City Council Wednesday night that in addition to the plane in his yard at his residence, he has a plane in the attic of his home. Abney appeared before the coun- cil to tell them that he did not appreci- ate the publicity he received recently when the city launched its clean-up campaign. Abney’s plane in the yard, without wings, was recently cited by the council as one of the more than 50 spots in town that should have some attention from home owners in the city’s move to improve the appearance of the town. Abney told the council Wednes- day that he first learned about the complaint in the press and since then he has smoothed off “some of the rough edges” of the plane. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian April 17, 1994 A member of the Eugene investment group that on Friday completed its contro- versial purchase of the Kinzua mill in Hep- pner said Friday his “personal preference” is to keep the mill running. “I think the peo- ple of Heppner will be happily surprised” when the investors decide the mill’s fate, said Ed King, one of four men who bought the Kinzua Corp. mill and 180,000 acres of timberland in Eastern Oregon. However, the investors have not yet decided what to do with the mill, said King. They will meet with mill managers next week and settle on a plan within several weeks, King added. TODAY 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 On April 17, 1972, the Boston Marathon allowed women to compete for the first time; Nina Kuscsik was the first officially recog- nized women’s champion, with a time of 3:10:26. In 1492, a contract was signed by Christopher Columbus and a represen- tative of Spain’s King Fer- dinand and Queen Isabella, giving Columbus a com- mission to seek a westward ocean passage to Asia. In 1924, the motion pic- ture studio Metro-Gold- wyn-Mayer was founded by a merger of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures and the Louis B. Mayer Co. In 1961, some 1,500 CIA-trained Cuban exiles launched the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in an attempt to topple Fidel Castro, whose forces crushed the incursion. In 1969, a jury in Los Angeles convicted Sirhan Sirhan of assassinating Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. In 1973, Federal Express (later FedEx) began opera- tions as 14 planes carrying 186 packages took off from Memphis International Air- port, bound for 25 U.S. cities. In 1991, the Dow Jones industrial average closed above 3,000 for the first time, ending the day at 3,004.46, up 17.58. In 1993, a federal jury in Los Angeles convicted two former police officers of violating the civil rights of beaten motorist Rodney King; two other officers were acquitted. T Today’s Birthdays: Composer-musician Jan Hammer is 71. Actress Olivia Hussey is 68. Actor Sean Bean is 60. Former NFL quarterback Boomer Esiason is 58. Country musician Craig Anderson is 46. Actor Paulie Litt is 24. Thought for Today: “I think America is richer in intelligence than any other country in the world; and that its intelligence is more scattered than in any coun- try of the world.” — Will Durant, American historian (1885-1981). 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