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B6 East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Wednesday, December 11, 2019 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Childhood abuse led woman to long life of promiscuity FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE BEETLE BAILEY BY MORT WALKER Dear Abby: I was molested by won’t come as a total shock to her. my sister’s husband in 1959. I was However, she may be so calloused or deeply in denial that she won’t react 5 years old. Growing up in the late or apologize, so do not expect it. 1950s and 1960s, sexual abuse was Dear Abby: My husband wants never discussed in my parents’ home. us to go to nudist resorts. We are It just wasn’t done then. Of course, both in our 70s and very out of shape. my brother-in-law told me it was “our He is extremely overweight and old little secret.” J eanne looking. Everything hangs. He has This has affected my entire life. P hilliPs been rude and nasty to me because I didn’t get counseling for it because ADVICE I always say no. I’m too old to leave I didn’t remember it. I became pro- miscuous at a young age, but I can- him. We can’t keep fighting over not remember any of the sexual epi- this. He is also very unhealthy. Help! Please give me some advice. — Clothing Not sodes. I have been with several thousand men Optional and don’t remember any of them. Dear C.N.O.: I’ll try. Naturist or cloth- I came up with a theory that each time, ing-optional resorts are not what you may I went into a “fugue state.” I understand it’s think they are. They are patronized by fami- common in children who are molested young. lies and individuals of every shape, size and I am horribly ashamed of my behavior, and I age. beg God nightly for forgiveness. In the interest of peace in your household, I’m married with a 29-year-old son, and my please do some research. Your husband is husband and son know all about my activities unwell, and you belong with him. You will not during our entire marriage. I have been chaste be the exception, you will be the norm and you now for more than a year and doing my best to will not be judged. Try it once and you will see not “fall off the wagon.” that when the clothes come off, we are all vari- My sister and her husband are now elderly, ations on one grand design — even if some of but I still want to tell her that he abused me. the moving parts sag a little. He also abused his adopted daughter, who ran Dear Abby: My husband left me stranded away when she was 14. Should I tell my sister at the train station with no way to get home as about what he did to me, or must I take it to my a punishment for my daughter’s behavior. He grave? (We are already estranged.) — Surviv- ing in Texas said it was because I never take him seriously, Dear Surviving: I am truly sorry for what and I should live with the consequences. I feel you experienced and how it has affected your he crossed a very big boundary with this, and life, and I congratulate you for your year of I’m considering leaving him. Am I wrong? — Stranded in California sobriety. That said, I think you would bene- fit from talking to a mental health professional Dear Stranded: I don’t think so. But before about this before deciding whether to tell your visiting a divorce lawyer, it might be better to consult a licensed marriage and family thera- sister. I say this for your sake, not hers. pist to see if you and your husband can find a If she remained with her husband after he more effective way to communicate. assaulted her young teenaged daughter (!), it DAYS GONE BY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Dec. 11, 1919 “Enclosed please find $2 for state license for my two dogs,” Homer I. Watts, Ath- ena, wrote in preface to a four-page letter to County Clerk R.T. Brown, setting forth the virtues of said dogs. The dogs are both fox terriers and are named Sport and Tookum. They are about the size of a tomcat, he says, if the tomcat is large enough. Both dogs have a dislike for Germans, are liked by gun fanciers and, in all, are worth four pages of a lawyer’s time and pencil-pushing effort. Mr. Watts is one of the three who have applied to the clerk for a state dog license for 1920, under provi- sions of the law passed at the last legislature. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Dec. 11, 1969 On the premise that people of the affected area know best what they want, members of the Heppner-Morrow County Chamber of Commerce voted to go along with the Herm- iston Coordinating Council in listing no objections to storage of war gas material at the Umatilla Army Depot. Morrow County Judge Paul Jones told the group he had been con- tacted by Joe Burns, who heads the council, asking that such a motion be passed. “If they don’t object when they live next door (to the gas material), I see no reason why we should,” said Chamber President Jerry Sweeney. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Dec. 11, 1994 John Hinderman, a Milton-Freewater native, was an avid big game hunter who took photographs of the wildlife he hunted and the places he visited. But a rare disease struck him in midlife, destroying the retina in his right eye and his ability to sight in a rifle. Now, 15 years later, his interest in wild- life photography has evolved into an avoca- tion. He’s traveled across the western United States, Canada and Alaska photographing everything from polar bears to rattlesnakes for publications such as National Geographic. Research and versatility are important to suc- cess he said. “If you’re shooting for something and you come across something else, you’re a damn fool if you don’t take it.” 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 Dec. 11, 2001, in the first criminal indictment stemming from 9/11, fed- eral prosecutors charged Zacarias Moussaoui, a French citizen of Moroccan descent, with conspiring to murder thousands in the sui- cide hijackings. (Moussaoui pleaded guilty to conspiracy in 2005 and was sentenced to life in prison.) In 1792, France’s King Louis XVI went before the Convention to face charges of treason. (Louis was con- victed and executed the fol- lowing month.) In 1816, Indiana became the 19th state. In 1844, the first exper- imental use of an inhaled anesthetic in dentistry took place as Dr. Horace Wells of Hartford, Connecti- cut, under the influence of nitrous oxide, had a col- league extract one of his teeth. In 1917, British Gen. Edmund Allenby entered Jerusalem two days after his forces expelled the Ottoman Turks. In 1941, Germany and Italy declared war on the United States; the U.S. responded in kind. In 1972, Apollo 17’s lunar module landed on the moon with astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harri- son Schmitt aboard; they became the last two men to date to step onto the lunar surface. In 1980, President Jimmy Carter signed legis- lation creating a $1.6 billion environmental “superfund” to pay for cleaning up chem- ical spills and toxic waste dumps. “Magnum P.I.,” starring Tom Selleck, pre- miered on CBS. In 1997, more than 150 countries agreed at a global warming conference in Kyoto, Japan, to control the Earth’s greenhouse gases. Today’s Birthdays: Actress Rita Moreno is 88. Movie director Susan Seidelman is 68. Actress Bess Armstrong is 66. Singer Jermaine Jackson is 65. Actor Gary Dourdan is 53. Actress-comedian Mo’Nique is 52. Actor Max Martini is 50. Rapper-ac- tor Mos Def is 46. Actress Xosha Roquemore is 35. Actress Karla Souza is 33. Thought for Today: “Every man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.” — Denis Did- erot, French philosopher (1713-1784). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
