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DEAR ABBY: For the last four years, I have been hosting my son “Dennis,” his 6-year-old son and his brother’s 8-year-old daughter every other weekend. Dennis bought a puppy, “Champ,” to go with his house and brings him on these visits. Champ is nice enough but extremely active.

It was in the wake of Scottish philosopher David Hume (7-776) having waged war on Christianity with his work, Of Miracles (748), that British minister Richard Price (723-79) was compelled to offer a Christian rebuttal to Hume's critique of the probability of miracles.

You want your way. And that is normal. But getting others to want to do what you are asking? Sometimes that's just not very easy. Forcing them usually doesn't make you a winner. In their eyes or in your own. A normal person will usually admit they don't enjoy having to use bad tactics to win.

I’ve seen I don’t know how many documentaries in the last few months about learning how to eat healthy, and the ones that concern me is about how restaurants are being checked by government-funded agencies for their safety measures in preparing foods for the public.

Did you ever have a perfect day, 24 hours when everything went right? I had one yesterday, and it scared me. I woke up at seven, feeling great. That’s crazy, because if I breathe normally before my morning coffee, something’s not right.

DEAR ABBY: My husband of 50 years sits in his chair for hours at a time making online purchases he thinks are a necessity or just plain intriguing.

DEAR ABBY: We were friends with a couple we met about five years ago. We went out together a few times and mostly saw them at our neighborhood bar. They live about 30 miles away.

Senator Lankford, Thank you for your recent reply regarding U.S. military action in Iran. I appreciate the operational overview you provided. However, your response did not address the specific concern I raised, and I want to restate it with absolute clarity.

DEAR ABBY: My 43-year-old daughter, “Patti,” a mom of two from different dads, is constantly in financial difficulties and periodically asks family members for money. Her live-in boyfriend earns a good living but is no help beyond paying the rent.

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