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Son repelled by smoking - By JANN BLACKSTONE-FORD, AND SHARYL JUPE - 3/1/2007
Q: I'm 13 and my mom and dad are divorced. I live with my mom most of the time and see my dad every other weekend. My dad and his new wife are great to me, but they smoke all the time and I hate it. |
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Learn from your experience - By CAROLYN HAX - 2/28/2007
Dear Carolyn: Last year, after nearly four years with my girlfriend, I called off our wedding and moved out. We tried to date afterward, but we couldn't move on from our fundamental problems and I made the decision to call it over. |
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Credit clash - By ABIGAIL VAN BUREN - 2/28/2007
Dear Abby: I have two stepchildren whom I love dearly. The older one, "Dawn," went through a difficult divorce and got bad credit because of it. |
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Girlfriend reveals she's a paid escort - By ABIGAIL VAN BUREN - 2/28/2007
Dear Abby: I have been dating "Crystal" for about a year. For the last seven months we shared a house together. We live in a very small town, and to make extra money as well as have something to occupy her time, Crystal started her own business. It has not been going well, and to top it off, I was laid off. |
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Stars interview stars - By LIZ SMITH - 2/28/2007
"We dug so deep three months into our marriage ... we had to dig really deep and that's what we'll do and what we're in the process of doing!" This is the highest paid female movie actor in the world, Nicole Kidman, submitting to some intense questions last week from her longtime pal Russell Crowe on Oprah's "Oscar" special. Russell was asking about Nicole's relationship to her new husband Keith Urban who went into rehab shortly after the honeymoon. |
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Stop the TV violence - By SUSAN CAMPBELL - 2/28/2007
When he was a child, Stephen Fuchs' heroes were television cowboys. If the Cisco Kid or Range Rider or Lone Ranger or Roy Rogers was thundering across the small screen, small Stephen was cheering him on in his boyhood New Jersey home. |
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Invitations by e-mail criticized - By JUDITH MARTIN - 2/27/2007
Dear Miss Manners: I received an invitation to a friend's cocktail party through a Web site "e-vite." I was sent an e-mail, which contained a link to a Web site, which displayed the details of the party, the guest list and each guest's response along with any comments they chose to post for all to see! |
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Misguided kindness - By JUDITH MARTIN - 2/27/2007
Dear Miss Manners: My mother recently passed away after an extended illness. A friend of mine, knowing my mother's situation, sent me a poem about a pet's death, envisioning the pet running in beautiful pastures, wagging its tail, jumping and playing. |
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Working two jobs is too much - By ABIGAIL VAN BUREN - 2/27/2007
Dear Abby: "Frustrated in Philly" (Jan. 14) wrote that he is burnt out from working two jobs because his wife, "Darla," is preoccupied with material things and "likes to keep up with the Joneses. |
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Can't read the directions - By ABIGAIL VAN BUREN - 2/26/2007
Dear Abby: As the baby boomer generation is growing older, when will food manufacturers wise up to the fact that printing cooking instructions on their products is no longer acceptable? |
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Fears and aging - By ABIGAIL VAN BUREN - 2/26/2007
Dear Abby: The recent letter and follow-up in your column regarding "Vince," who is becoming afraid of heights now that he's older, prompts my own. You counseled him to see his doctor. |
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Woman keeps love a secret - By ABIGAIL VAN BUREN - 2/26/2007
Dear Abby: I am a single woman in my early 30s who has never been married. I recently fell in love with a wonderful man with whom I spend a great deal of time. |
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Some answers to Oscar mysteries - By JEFF SIMON - 2/26/2007
Pull up a chair. The Oscar Answer Man is in. And don't tell me I'm stealing this idea from Johnny Carson's "Carnac the Magnificent" either, because I'm stealing it from where Carson stole it from originally - Steve Allen's "Answer Man" bit. |
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Sitting in a plane, waiting - By LORI BORGMAN - 2/26/2007
When you have 60 passengers in an airplane idling on a snow-packed runway for two hours, it would seem the last thing you'd want to do is start handing out bottled water. |
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My official SWAT watch - By W. BRUCE CAMERON - 2/25/2007
If you ever find yourself in a hostage situation, feel free to call me, or send me an e-mail. I can handle it: I have a SWAT watch. That's right. Reporter Clark Kent was secretly Superman, and columnist W. Bruce Cameron is secretly the kind of guy who can wear a watch that's an exact duplicate of the one official SWAT team members wear in that movie about them. |
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Stop blaming yourself - By CAROLYN HAX - 2/25/2007
Dear Carolyn: Before my older brother was born, my grandfather died of lung disease because of smoking. At that time, my mom decided to quit smoking. |
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Will he or won't he? - By CAROLYN HAX - 2/25/2007
Dear Carolyn: How much truth is there to the "If he hasn't married you by now, he never will" scenario? It has been over four years and we are both over 30. |
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Take the path of civility - By JUDITH MARTIN - 2/25/2007
Dear Miss Manners: It is now three months since my ex-boyfriend told me that he wanted to be alone. We had been friends for eight months before he made the official move of kissing me to signify that he wanted to date. |
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Please respond - By JUDITH MARTIN - 2/25/2007
Dear Miss Manners: What does R.S.V.P. stand for? Gentle Reader: "Respondez, s'il vous plais," which is "Respond, please" in French. It does not stand for Recreational Spontaneity is Very Pleasant, as many people seem to think. E-mail your etiquette questions to Miss Manners (who is distraught that she cannot reply personally) at MissManners@unitedmedia.com. |
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Husband shares secrets - By ABIGAIL VAN BUREN - 2/25/2007
Dear Abby: My husband recently began carrying on his phone conversations on "speaker mode" when he got his new cell phone. As a result, I end up hearing most of his conversations in our small house or while we're driving in the car. |
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