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Dear Ann Landers: ‘After 1 read ‘the aad let- :, ter fram the-woman who. - : ' married 4a man 20 yea her senior Thad towrlte. — _” When I got out of the army (World War ID, 1 started to hit ihe bars — looking for-young chicks. - After, Ing dr fer three or four hours, I was . dlways ditched for some one day fy mat . bh lo elder... ‘women, I soon di ed those over. 40 didn't yell, they didn’t swell and - Weregratefulaghel,. “My-advice to all:the 7: . “men out there who can't = «. seem to find asultablefe . . male ts this: Look for -women who are your OWN age or older. “They - ‘are ‘more dependabl . more Interesting and w: “knock themselves out to” : please, =~ Gordy From os bock Dear |.Gordy: ‘It’s to women who wonderful company If chance, — : they had the Dear Ann Landers: Many Youre adults who have Jost thelr Joba are now living with thelr parents, This can create ‘many problems. I never .; thought it:would happen - os oo ee but itaid. Can you nett, help-end the war iri our - home? - ‘ “Our college-educated daughter doesn’t belleve she should. be asked to run errands, do laundry or help with the cooking or cleaning, even thoug she Jives-here free of charge. She feels it ‘Is ounishment” for having. lostherjob.. My elderly father Ives with us also ‘and there’s ‘he daughter uses this . Plenty to do around here. lace as if-It were a free wed ctel. Comment, please, — — Tired In Ark . Dear. Tired: Unem: . pioved adults who move ack’ home should do eve passibie to earn their keep. No chore is as self-depreci- ating as being a freeload- er. : ‘ oo . Dear Ann Landers; - Sorry I am. so fate with this letter, but It has taken me until now to recover from the nausea created by the subject. [ am referring to those hotecopled newsletters hat ‘people-“send ‘at. Christmastime. wr tus fe ee This year ‘my hisband and I recelved six shame- tess exhibitions of brazen bragging, mixed in with. ole lot of fantasizing — or ‘maybe these folks are delusionary. When . the senders live in anoth- er city it is- not always possible to spot the gild- - @d. Lilies, glossed-over facts or the blatant fabri- cation. Hut some of these, . folks live in town.. Who, @o they think they are kidding? b Its stran e how pao a mentions bein fired. g £ the hurt suffered when early retirement was thrust upon them by. the power brokers. And how come all their children ure such stars? Doesn't anyone have a son who- didn’t win early accept- ance to Harvard or a daughter whose grades were so abysmal she couldn't get in anyplace? All the offspring men- tioned in the newsletters are excellent students or terrific athleles — gar- . nering honors, medals . and’ citations left and right -and winning rib- bons in horse shows, One eld has been elected resident of the student udy'and another is _belng sent to Takyo to “represent the school on a “friendship mission,” ooo Tan't anyone's teenager ‘seeing a shrink because his grades are lousy, he fights with everyone in -the family ’nd ran away from home three times last year? (Ours did.) ° We alwaya /ovd to hear about ‘the trips te St. - ’, Martin, Tahiti, the Baha- * mas, fishing In Anchor: age and. Noya-~-Scotia, snorkeling in the Florida Keys snd skiing In Vall “and Aspen. It gladdens . our. hearts to know- our friends -are so affluent that they can enjoy such, ve. Ipsurlea while my hus- band and I are havihg a hell of a time paying iil for his —- muralig home ’ | mother ond getting three ls through acne, crook- th and a learning What colossal egos these people have to think that anyone would : "spend the required ‘nine “ 12‘ minutes to plow through all that rubbish . Vet. they send it year ‘alter year — always ‘ with the same brilliant - salutation, “Well, here woare ogaint™ . One of these days (if 1 live long enough) I am golng to see a Christmas newsletter that reads Uke this; | “Dear Friends This was a rotten year. Victor lost hla job. Our oldest daughter was picked up for shoplifting and our youngest Is living with @ real creep, Our 1i-year- old's frestest achieve- ment this year waa to stop wetting the bed. 1 am checking into the Betty Ford centre to dry out and Victor Is leavi me for a manicuris Older women a0 gratatul . Thanks for writing -—- on . behalf. of the mrafare . = ‘actually enjoy those : newslet- core? Fer those who Hat you not respond ¢0 tory 7 it will deliver’ yoursell : - from any future epistles. < There is this.girl at school who ‘she is “my best friend. — bat 1 my -to: have’ "Three weeks ‘ago she -_... ‘borrowed my pretti bhouse. Yesterday when I ‘asked her to retura, it: she sald, “I am not fin- falied with it yet.” . , I waiit that blouse and - need to know how I can get it back, NOW: —~ E." “ Lending clothes Is a sure way to ruin a friendship. You can. do nothing ndw except hound her daily. PS. If Fou learned somethin ‘rom this experience was not allbad. - __1 sympathize with. - “Nameless In Whiitier,”. the battered husband. . My father, a kind. and - sensitive man, has been a-battered hushand for 15 years, 50 I kaiow that scene inside out. ", My mother flies off with her naliy‘Tremem-:- her once she threw a fate of spaghetti in his ace. At other tim especiully in front of . . kelatives and acquaint- ances, Mom is the most el fenile and loving person 7 the world. T several psychiatrists and. peycologis ‘she is’ a Dr, Jekyli and Mrs. Hyde — a paranold | schizophrene j . haa moved out of the house at least 15 “times and ‘filed for di- _vorce three times, He always drope the charges - alter a few days when Mom calms down and behaves: like a normal person, . We have tried (unguc- cessfully} to have her hospitalized. She is only ‘56 years old and very . retty, but we cannot get er to understand that she is sick and needs help. We've even -tried family therapy — ail six of us — but Mom-felt.we..: yere all-ganging up on - | er... Sethe Vesa ... Your suggestion tl the divorced woma . come up with receipts as evidence that she is . spending the chiki-s port money on the chit . stinks. a ts. They say - this . Spot. — No Name Please. Thanks for an inform- and. compassionate letter. Obviously, your ‘mother Is a mental case. Most women who beat : up their husbands ‘are - sum ly temperamental, highvattung ar jut plain: cals, ad ' A’oman shauld not " tolerate physical abuse any more than 4 woman. -+ While Ido not recom: mend that he give her knuckle. sandwich an rearrange her bridge- work, I feel he should not ‘vontinue to Hve with a woman who one day might put him in the . * hospital or the cemetery: Singke methers tha % Dad gets his son fof ‘ene month in the stunts mer and two: weeks at ather 1042 months of the year, who attends to the ; talks scral ta the principal when John: oy acts up in class, a _ Attends broken. friend: “ships: tends to -broken ‘ arms and stays up all twhenhe'ssick? * cares : ? r ho puts so much: emotional energy into cher children’s lives that there is nothing left for’ anyone else? means: will probably never remarry. Meanwhile, her ex-husband’s young” cause she resents every! pean che gives his first; amily. : I have been a sin; te, parent for 10 years. 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