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DEAR ABBY: For years, my only daughter and I got along pretty well. Then she stopped visiting or speaking to us, meaning we didn't see our grandchildren or my son-in-law. That went on for six to eight years. Suddenly, she has responded on Facebook but refuses to tell me what the problem was.

DEAR ABBY: My husband of 31 years died suddenly five years ago. Our family -- four kids, six grandkids -- was devastated. We still haven’t recovered. We used to be a happy bunch, spending time at the lake, backyard barbecues by the pool and football games. My husband was an integral part of this.

DEAR ABBY: I invited a friend, “Sybil,” to dinner at a fine dining, special occasion restaurant to celebrate her birthday. About a month before, I called to say I had also asked someone else to join us, as it was also her birthday.

DEAR ABBY: Would you please do a much-needed public service for those of us who have a service dog? Service dogs are trained to perform specific tasks for their handlers.

Being a parent/caretaker is one of the most important roles you will have. There are more negative distractions geared toward our young people than ever before. Young people trust adults and imitate them.Also they are influenced by what they see in movies, TV, and on internet.

Over the previous three articles, we have presented historian Charles Freeman’s argument that the rise of Christianity in the Roman world brought about a “closing of the Western mind” and a “fall of reason” due to the intentional abandonment of the Greek intellectual tradition.

Think you have found your absolutely perfect dream home? Better make certain that amazing home you’ve found isn’t situated near the local garbage dump.

DEAR ABBY: My sister is involved with a wealthy man who is 20 years older. Their affair (they are both married) is now on year six as far as I know. My sister’s husband is in poor health. Abby, she told him about the affair. They decided to sell their house and stop living together.

Have you felt good about going to vote but found yourself looking at all the names and trying to decide who to vote—not knowing beans about the choices? Which name seemed ‘good’, which didn’t sound trustworthy or reliable? We might as well use the method of `eenie, meenie, miney, moe’!

In the last article, we replied to Greek historian Charles Freeman’s claim that the apostle Paul “waged war” on the Greek philosophical tradition.