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TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2025 DEAR ABBY: I am 65, single and retired with an almost-40-year-old bipolar child. Although she’s compliant with her meds, she also self-medicates and sometimes must be hospitalized due to her mania. She doesn’t work and refuses to apply for any aid.

DEAR ABBY: I am a 67-year-old man who has two sisters. Recently, I was at my younger sister “Mitzi’s” house, installing some blinds. While there, I received a phone call from my girlfriend. (We have been together nine months, after my wife passed last year.

Alex suddenly realized he was starving, according to his standards. Of course, that standard set low, as his stomach pretty much governed his life. Forty-five minutes without something going into his mouth seemed like forever to that growing teenager.

What does chair yoga sound like to you? My daughter and I decided to try it out. We were surprised after we participated in the first session because we wondered how could the slow-stretching, relaxing exercises do much.

Critics of theism and Christianity claim not only that God is dead but that He never truly existed in the first place. For if the God of Christianity truly exists, then why is there so much pain and suffering in the world?

FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 2025 DEAR ABBY: I am a 54-year-old mother of two, a wife and a full-time teacher. My days are long, busy and usually uneventful. Every evening, I am expected to call my 84-year-old mother, who lives a few states away.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 2025 Today is the 225th day of 2025 and the 55th day of summer. TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1521, Hernando Cortes captured the capital of the Aztec empire, Tenochtitlan (later Mexico City), after a three-month siege.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 2025 DEAR ABBY: My husband is going to be 70 next month. He is in good physical shape but has taken up smoking marijuana every day. He says he is addicted. I have told him how much I hate that he uses dope. He quits for a while and then goes back to it.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2025 HUSBAND REFUSES TO ACCEPT WIFE’S IMMINENT PASSING DEAR ABBY: I was diagnosed with colon cancer five years ago. After two surgeries and three hospital stays, I recovered. The experience made me realize at 62 that it was time to downsize.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2025 DEAR ABBY: I have been a registered nurse for 11 years. I am experienced in hospital floor nursing and clinic nursing, and I have always been well regarded in my field. I have never had a problem forming positive relationships with my co-workers.