Dear Amy: My wife and I share your column at breakfast. Can you arrange this for us? Columnist Amy Dickinson (Bill Hogan / Chicago Tribune) Our son, senior in college, claims he has found the love of his life. “Ashley” is also senior. They have been dating for more than …
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DEAR ABBY: At age 17, my pregnant and unwanted mother married a schoolmate of my biological father. I got the last name of the schoolmate. Several years later, my mother divorced her first husband and she married my biological father. Jeanne Phillips They discussed changing my last name into that …
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Medications for high blood pressure could improve survival rates for people suffering from COVID-19 and reduce the severity of infection, according to new research from a team of scientists at the University of East Anglia in the UK and published Monday in the Journal Current Atherosclerosis Reports, a bilingual peer-reviewed …
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The coronavirus of 2020 and the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 have many differences and share many similarities, but they also combine at one point: their impact on the economy and employment, and in particular, how richer people had better opportunities to survive their respective pandemics. Both pandemics involve new, …
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DEAR ABBY: I have been married a little over a year. My wife took a trip to Florida to get some things out of storage and turned it around in a two week vacation. She is now traveling back with the mother-in-law, which I did not expect. Jeanne Phillips Yesterday …
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