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DEAR ABBY - My marriage has been on the rocks since 2008, when I caught my husband talking to other girls online. He swore he would never do it again and I trusted him, only for it to happen again and again. We have a 2-year-old and I'm pregnant …
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12/28/11 01:00 AM
In her three decades as community services coordinator with Wateree Community Actions Inc., Frances Hill has learned a lot about the poor, as well as those temporarily in need. She retired this month, after having delayed her retirement for several …
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BY IVY MOORE
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12/28/11 01:00 AM
DEAR ABBY - As a clinical psychologist, I believe your advice to "Protective Mom in the Midwest" (Oct. 26) was oversimplified. You told her she was right in not permitting her husband's brother, a registered sex offender, to visit the family during …
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12/27/11 01:00 AM
DEAR ABBY - After a long battle with cancer, my beloved mother died. After we got over the initial shock of Mom's passing, we were looking through her room. It had always been ingrained in us not to snoop through Mom's things, so there were some …
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12/25/11 01:00 AM
Here's a holiday puzzle to ponder. Just as certain assigned, "secret" religious meanings to the items in the song "Twelve Days of Christmas" were becoming somewhat accepted, Snopes, the renowned defamer of urban legends and old wives' tales, …
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BY IVY MOORE
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12/25/11 01:00 AM
WESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Normally, Rebecca Jordan will take all the free TV exposure she can get for the psychiatric hospital that she's turned into a tourist attraction known as the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum.
SyFy's "Ghost Hunters." Travel …
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12/24/11 01:00 AM
DEAR ABBY - I have been happily married for more than 20 years. I joined an online social network to keep in touch with family, friends and my kids who are in college. I love the convenience, but I'm in a quandary.
A number of men from my past …
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12/24/11 01:00 AM
DEAR ABBY - After 19 years of marriage, my husband left me for a younger woman. I found out later that they had been dating for several years. They moved in together immediately after our separation, and she was pregnant at the divorce hearing. They …
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12/23/11 01:00 AM
DEAR ABBY - On Oct. 19 you printed a letter from "Bruised and Abused," a man who is dating a woman who becomes physically violent when they argue. I know this is a touchy subject. I have heard from authorities that about half of domestic violence …
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12/22/11 01:00 AM
DEAR ABBY - I'm a 25-year-old guy with a unique problem. My father has been dating a woman since I was 16 who has a daughter my age named "Emma." Over the years Emma and I became good friends -- then more than that. We hooked up a few times. About a …
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12/21/11 01:00 AM
It's a satisfying remedy for the end-of-the-holidays slump, an occasion to meet your friends, hear some good live music and, most of all, enjoy a wide variety of domestic and imported wines, served with complementary dishes prepared by the area's …
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BY IVY MOORE
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12/21/11 01:00 AM
LAURA CARDELLO/SPECIAL TO THE ITEM Carolyn Bishop-McLeod, left, talks with Lynda Parker about Sumter WineFest's Coco Lounge, where they are standing and which Parker and Susan Allen designed. The room featured a wide variety of fine chocolates …
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12/20/11 07:00 PM
DEAR ABBY - I have been married for 13 years to a good guy who is a great dad. We have two boys, ages 9 and 11. The problem is, we don't communicate. We hardly have sex and we don't get along at all.
I feel like I have sacrificed physical and …
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12/20/11 01:00 AM
Thanks to a family of voracious readers who "inherited" their love of books from their matriarch, hundreds of young children in Sumter County are introduced to the importance of literacy - and the joy of reading - each year. When longtime Sumter …
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BY IVY MOORE
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12/18/11 01:00 AM
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Cadettes and Seniors from Girl Scout Troop 2292 help children compose their letters to Santa Claus at Santa's Village at Swan Lake-Iris Gardens. It's their third year of providing the community service for the city of Sumter. Lynn …
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12/18/11 01:00 AM
Q.: How do you get down from an elephant?
A.: You don't get down from an elephant. You get down from a goose.
People still like vests and comforters filled with down, although feather-filled pillows don't seem to be as common as they used to …
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BY JOHN NELSON
Curator, USC Herbarium |
12/18/11 01:00 AM
DEAR ABBY - My mother, Eleanor, passed away last Aug. 30. She spent her long life helping others. During her eulogy, I described her by saying, "Her best lesson, the one she modeled for us, is that a selfless life devoted to family and others, is …
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12/18/11 01:00 AM
DEAR ABBY - I'm an 18-year-old male living on my own in an apartment not far from my parents' home. They visit me often and take turns driving me to the local college because I don't have a car.
My parents tend to worry about me. I'm rather thin, …
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12/17/11 01:00 AM
DEAR ABBY - My fiancee said, "Shut UP!" during a recent conversation with my mom, using the phrase in the same way people say, "No way!" or, "Get outta here!" to express friendly disbelief.
Mom didn't say anything and gave me no reason to believe …
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12/16/11 01:00 AM
DEAR ABBY - "Saddened in New Jersey" (Oct. 2) complained that her sister's 4-year-old daughter put stickers on the hands and face of her deceased grandmother during her wake. Perhaps the child's mother didn't anticipate her daughter's actions. …
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12/15/11 01:00 AM
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