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FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 2025 DEAR ABBY: My husband and I are blessed with a 6-month-old son, “Tyler.” I’m now back at work three days a week. My mother and my motherin- law offered to watch him one day a week, which we were grateful for. (I found a babysitter for the third day.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 2025 DEAR ABBY: I was married for 20 years to a man who slowly isolated me from friends and family until I had no one but him to rely on. Now 49 and divorced, I am without close friends. For the last two years, I’ve been actively trying to build connections.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 2025 DEAR ABBY: I’ve been happily married for 31 years. I love my wife, but we are now more like roommates or friends than the lovers we were initially. We are also not soulmates. We both agree that few couples are. But I MET my soulmate three years ago.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 2025 DEAR ABBY: I have been incarcerated for 21 months. I stay in contact with my immediate family, except for my brother. I suspect that he slept with my girlfriend a couple of weeks before I came to prison, although I’m not 100% sure.

Opponents of Oklahoma’s school choice program claim it primarily benefits “the rich” because, in effect, the joint income of a working mom and dad with children is greater than the income of a young, single person with no children.

Jeannie slipped silently down the dark, cellar steps like a shadow on a mission. Certainly not a shadow, but definitely on a mission. She knew exactly where her grandmother kept her pickle-making crock.

Years ago a former pastor of the Church of God taught Bible History classes at SSC (his name escapes me).

Christians hold that the eight survivors of The Great Flood (Noah and his wife, their three sons, and their wives) disembarked the Ark on Mount Ararat and then migrated to the Plains of Shinar in ancient Mesopotamia.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 2025 DEAR ABBY: My husband passed away four months ago. I miss him terribly, but I’m ready to move on. I want to begin dating, but I don’t know how to go about it. Some may say it’s too soon, but I couldn’t care less what people think.

THURSDAY, JULY 31, 2025 DEAR ABBY: My son is 20 and a senior in college. He’s a baseball player and is about to ask the girl he’s been dating for a year and a half to marry him. My wife and I don’t get along with her at all.