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TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 2024 DEAR ABBY: I dated a guy who hid from me the fact that he was a severe alcoholic. After I realized it, I continued to date him, thinking it was love when it wasn’t. Unfortunately, after two years of dating, I became pregnant.

Election Reform Matilda K. Williams Seminole, OK Much has been written lately about the recent primary election that excluded Democrats from voting for county offices that should be non-partisan, like Sheriff. And still the Republicans mounted a poor voter turnout!

SUNDAY, JUNE 23, 2024 DEAR ABBY: As a lonely, mixed-up teenager in the 1980s, I developed a huge crush on a disc jockey at a local radio station.

By Jonathan Small Is it too much to ask that law schools obey the law? Apparently, the American Bar Association thinks it is. Fortunately, the ABA is drawing strong pushback, including from Oklahoma’s chief legal law enforcement officer.

Don’t kid yourself. You ain’t ever gonna be that strong, that good, or that important! To anyone in your world. No matter how hard you try, or how great you believe that you are. In fact, that attitude can cause you to wear yourself out trying to be the Grand Man In The Cape.

Test yourself: Do spend more time thinking about the past, the present, or in the future? Think about it. In your conversations with people or in your daydreams, which takes up most of what you like to talk about or think about?

In response to the City of Seminole’s social media post 6-19-20, which appears below: Residents at Hidden Hills Mobile Home Park have had a rough time the past few weeks since a private water line ruptured and left the entire park without water.

FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 2024 DEAR ABBY: My girlfriend and I broke up after six years. Both of us have children from marriages that ended seven years ago. We reached a point a year and a half ago and started looking for a house together.

THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 2024 DEAR ABBY: My cat recently passed away, and it has devastated me. He was my emotional support during some of the hardest times of my life -- relationships ending, moving to different states, deaths in my family, lonely nights battling depression.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 2024 DEAR ABBY: I have two granddaughters and four grandsons. My granddaughters, ages 19 and 20, wear thong bikinis at family swim events in front of their dad, grandpa, uncles and cousins. I believe this is incredibly inappropriate.