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East Oregonian
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Thursday, May 13, 2021
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Long-married man
remains in the closet
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 been married
I suffer from severe depression
more than 25 years and have kids.
and now know that most of my bio
I’m also gay. I always have been,
family does, too.
but when I was a teenager, it wasn’t
During the past year, my husband
acceptable and I always believed I
and I decided to tackle it head-on
would just outgrow it, or learn to live
with medication, and there has
with it. Then came the computer era
been a noticeable change in me. My
and the internet — things I never
husband is very supportive, and we
dreamed of while growing up. They
are close. Problem is, I want to meet
Jeanne
changed my life, yet I’m still clos-
my out-of-state bio brother alone.
Phillips
eted.
He’s the only full sibling I have, and
ADVICE
I have had two gay relationships.
our connection is uncanny.
Both lasted less than a year. I feel
My husband is a hyper extro-
like my whole life has been a lie, and
vert, and I don’t want his charming
I pretty much screwed up my wife because
antics to distract from this moment (although
of it. I did provide her with all the creature
usually I love it). He, however, says he can’t
comforts financially, and gave her two beau-
agree. He’s afraid something with the new
tiful kids.
family will set off a depressive episode, and
I’ll be too far away for him to get to me.
I just don’t know if it’s worth coming out
at this point in my life. I’m also reluctant
That’s understandable. But what do I do? I
because I don’t have a guy in my life right
still feel the same. Is he right or am I? —
now, although I am looking. It’s just so diffi-
Connecting in California
Dear Connecting: Not knowing how
cult. I’m torn about how to live the remain-
der of my life. Please help. — Closeted in
serious your depressive episodes have been,
the Midwest
my instinctive reaction is to advise you to
listen to your husband. Surely he wouldn’t
Dear Closeted: Because you are looking
for a partner, it looks like you really don’t
have to be with you every minute and could
plan on sticking around once you find one.
stay at a nearby hotel or motel while you are
Tell your wife the truth so she can decide
seeing your sibling.
how she would like to spend the rest of her
That said, if there is any chance that an
life. She may need help from a licensed ther-
episode could result in you becoming self-de-
apist to deal with the ramifications of your
structive, it is important to discuss this visit
disclosure, so be prepared because it may be
with the therapist who prescribes your medi-
a shock when she learns the person she has
cations before making any plans to go. Do
spent the last quarter of a century with is not
tell your husband that if he accompanies you,
exactly who she thought he was.
you would like him to tone down his need
Dear Abby: I was adopted and recently
for attention so he won’t distract from your
came across my biological family. It’s huge.
experience or your brother’s.
DAYS GONE BY
From the East Oregonian
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
May 13, 1921
One of the costliest fires in the vicinity
of Pendleton for many weeks occurred this
morning when the beautiful home of Bill
Pedro in Riverside burned to the ground.
The house was one of the most beautiful
homes in the district near Pendleton, and the
loss is placed at $20,000, with $15,000 insur-
ance. Starting a fire with coal oil is the prob-
able cause of the fire, Chief W.E. Ringold
thinks. The chief, accompanied by Firemen
Jack Childs and Harold Spooner took the
Studebaker truck and went to the fire, but
use of the city apparatus was impossible
because the residence was located too far
outside of the city limits. A bucket brigade
was formed and the city firemen assisted by
Ed Mable and Ed Morgan and others fought
a winning battle in an effort to save two
adjoining buildings.
50 Years Ago
May 13, 1971
Sgt. Stephen R. Forrey, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Paul Forrey of Stanfield, returned home from
completing a tour of duty with the U.S. Army.
Sgt. Forrey served in Vietnam 14 months
and receive five medals including the Army
Commendation Medal, Purple Heart, Bronze
Star, and Silver Star. The citation given with
the Silver Star reads,” For gallantry in action
against an armed hostile force in the repub-
lic of Vietnam.” Sgt. Forrey gave first aid to
injured men in his battalion after a booby trap
was inadvertently triggered on July 30, 1970,
despite continued enemy activity in the region
and his own painful injuries, until the most
serious casualties had been attended.
25 Years Ago
May 13, 1996
In a span of little more than five hours on
Saturday, the Pendleton Bucks went from
first place to third place in the Intermountain
Conference softball standings. The Redmond
Panthers shocked the Bucks 4-3 in an epic,
15-inning battle in game one and routed Pend-
leton 10-1 in game two to sweep the crucial
doubleheader. The Panthers, now 8-3 in the
conference, will be heavily favored to win
their final game on Thursday to move to 9-3
and take the second seed from the Bucks.
Pendleton finished the regular season with
a 9-3 record, but will get the third seed after
losing two to the Panthers.
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 May 13, 1607, English
colonists arrived by ship at
the site of what became the
Jamestown settlement in
Virginia (the colonists went
ashore the next day).
In 1568, forces loyal to
Mary, Queen of Scots were
defeated by troops under her
half-brother and Regent of
Scotland, the Earl of Moray,
in the Battle of Langside,
thwarting Mary’s attempt to
regain power almost a year
after she was forced to abdi-
cate.
In 1914, heavyweight
boxing champion Joe Louis
was born in Lafayette,
Alabama.
In 1917, three shepherd
children reported seeing a
vision of the Virgin Mary
near Fatima, Portugal; it was
the first of six such appari-
tions that the children claimed
to have witnessed.
In 1940, in his first speech
as British prime minis-
ter, Winston Churchill told
Parliament, “I have nothing
to offer but blood, toil, tears
and sweat.”
In 1958, Vice President
Richard Nixon and his wife,
Pat, were spat upon and their
limousine battered by rocks
thrown by anti-U.S. demon-
strators in Caracas, Venezu-
ela.
In 1961, actor Gary
Cooper died in Los Angeles
six days after turning 60.
In 1967, a vault fire at
Met ro - Goldw y n-Mayer
in Culver City, California,
destroyed hundreds of the
studio’s early films.
In 1972, 118 people died
after fire broke out at the
Sennichi Department Store
in Osaka, Japan.
In 1981, Pope John Paul
II was shot and seriously
wounded in St. Peter’s Square
by Turkish assailant Mehmet
Ali Agca.
In 1985, a confronta-
tion between Philadelphia
authorities and the radi-
cal group MOVE ended as
police dropped a bomb onto
the group’s row house, ignit-
ing a fire that killed 11 people
and destroyed 61 homes.
In 2002, President George
W. Bush announced that he
and Russian President Vlad-
imir Putin would sign a
treaty to shrink their coun-
tries’ nuclear arsenals by
two-thirds.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor
Harvey Keitel is 82. Singer
Stevie Wonder is 71. Basket-
ball Hall of Famer Dennis
Rodman is 60. “Late Show”
host Stephen Colbert is 57.
Actor Susan Floyd is 53.
Actor Samantha Morton is 44.
Actor Robert Pattinson is 35.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE