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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2024 DEAR ABBY: A year ago, I met a wonderful man on a cruise. We hit it off fabulously, and since we live 1,000 miles apart, we stay in touch primarily by phone -- talking and video chatting.

Dear Editor, I just want to comment on a number of recent articles: 1. KFOR lawsuit vs our Education Tsar, Ryan Walters Dear Governor Stitt, you created this monster. Isn’t it time you relieved us and yourself of him? Both of you took an oath of office to uphold both the U.S.

DEARABBY:Alongtime neighbor and friend has accused me of stealing a ring. I had been providing her with transportation to visit her husband while he was in rehab recovering from a broken leg. I also took her on other errands. One day, she was upset.

Nope, don’t get your dander up (or your hopes up, depending on what you were hoping to read.) I am not going to write about naked bodies and the image that phrase seems to conjure up to people. The focus of this column, the nakedness I am writing about? Your future.

Oxford Languages defines time as the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole. My comments on how we spend time in some unrhymed sketches: TIME (1984) Some people throw it away. Some play with it. Some search for a better one.

The German philosopher Karl Marx once stated that Christianity was “the opium of the masses.” Sure enough, religion in general, and Christianity in particular has often been portrayed by nonbelievers as “a way to control society.” Fredrich Nietzsche concurred.

DEAR ABBY: Some relatives come once or twice a year from out of state to stay at my in-laws’ house. For the past 20-plus years, it has been the same routine. They show up, but we never know ahead of time when or how long they are staying.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2024 DEAR ABBY: I am dating an older man with two ex-wives. I have met both of them. I don’t mind them. The last ex-wife and I get along. She usually calls me because he won’t answer his phone for her.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2024 DEAR ABBY: My older sister had an affair with an old boyfriend that lasted several months. She was 58 and had been married for 38 years. Her husband, who is a wonderful person and father of their three grown children, forgave her.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2024 DEAR ABBY: My fiance and I have been together for 14 years. A few months ago, his mother told us she had inherited a home that had belonged to her parents, and she wanted to gift it to us.