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Husband’s long tresses stress his wife DEAR ABBY: My husband, who has a beautiful head of dark curly hair, decided to let it grow. It is now about halfway down his back. Sometimes he braids it or pulls it into a ponytail. Other times he wears it down and it falls loose. The problem is, I can’t bear to look at him. He has always been clean-cut and had short hair. But as time has gone on and many of his friends have begun losing their hair, he says he wants to grow his out while he Dear Abby is can. written by I know that in the Abigail Van grand scheme of life, Buren, also hair shouldn’t be an known as issue, but I can’t seem Jeanne to get past this. I think Phillips, and it’s because of the way was founded by her mother, he used to look. I can’t talk to him about it bePauline cause he really likes his Phillips. hair. This feels like my
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problem, but how can I deal with it? — TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING DEAR TOO MUCH: If you can’t look at your spouse because his flowing tresses are a turnoff, this must be affecting many aspects of your marriage. Although he likes his hair long, if you address it in those terms he may be willing to listen. However, just as women should be free to wear their hair the way they want, the same should apply to males. P.S. I’m surprised his friends want to hang around with a walking reminder that they are follicly challenged. DEAR ABBY: My wife and I went to a Mexican resort with five other couples for a seven-day vacation. On the second day, one of the wives, “Sandra,” received the news that her sister “Kate” had died unexpectedly. The funeral would not be held until two days after we returned. Sandra’s husband was furious at the family member for calling. What did they expect her to do, hop a plane? We were all affected by Sandra’s loss. The first two days all five couples were having a ball. After that call it was like someone popped the balloon — it was never the same for any of us.
Some of us feel they could have waited until the last day before calling, although I personally think they should have waited until she got home. Sandra and Kate were completely dissimilar and not close. Even Sandra said, “Well, at least I had two good days of vacation.” Should the family have waited? — DISGUSTED IN WISCONSIN DEAR DISGUSTED: It depends, I think, upon the dynamics in the sisters’ family and to what degree Kate’s death was a shock to everyone. When death happens out of the blue, people sometimes react emotionally rather than rationally, which may be why the relative called immediately. I agree with the friends who said the sad news could have been conveyed on the last day of the trip. Had Sandra been told immediately upon her return home, she might have been grateful. On the other hand, she also might have been furious, saying, “How could you keep this from me!?” That said, in my opinion it would have been kinder to let Sandra and her husband enjoy their holiday, since it was already too late to rush to the sister’s bedside.
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Lennon’s guitar sells for $2.4M BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — An acoustic guitar that John Lennon used to record and write “Love Me Do,” “I Want to Hold Your Hand” and other hit songs sold for $2.4 million at auction. Julien’s Auctions said the Gibson J-160E guitar was sold Saturday to an undisclosed buyer. The auction house said the guitar was one of only two of its type flown from America to England in 1962 for Lennon and George Harrison. Lennon used the guitar for about a year before swapping it with Harrison; it later went missing during a Christmas concert in 1963. The guitar’s whereabouts was unknown for more than 50 years until a California man discovered last year that a guitar in his possession may have historical value. John McCaw, of San Diego, who bought the guitar in the late 1960s for $275, stumbled on an old magazine story about Harrison, which featured a photo of the instrument which bore similar markings to his guitar. An expert was able match the guitar’s serial number, wood grain and markings to the one Lennon used in the early 1960s, Julien’s Auction said in a news release. The drum head that The Beatles used in their landmark performance on “The Ed Sullivan Show” was auctioned Saturday for $2.1 million, the auction house said.
TODAY IN HISTORY By The Associated Press
Today is Monday, Nov. 9, the 313th day of 2015. There are 52 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Nov. 9, 1965, the great Northeast blackout began as a series of power failures lasting up to 13½ hours left 30 million people in seven states and part of Canada without electricity. On this date: In 1620, the passengers and crew of the Mayflower sighted Cape Cod. In 1872, fire destroyed nearly 800 buildings in Boston. In 1918, it was announced that Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm II would abdicate; he then fled to the Netherlands. In 1935, United Mine Workers president John L. Lewis and other labor leaders formed the Committee for Industrial Organization (later renamed the Congress of Industrial Organizations). In 1938, Nazis looted and burned synagogues as well as Jewish-owned stores and houses in Germany and Austria in a pogrom that became known as “Kristallnacht.” In 1953, Welsh author-poet Dylan Thomas died in New York at age 39. In 1967, a Saturn V rocket carrying an unmanned Apollo spacecraft blasted off from Cape Kennedy on a successful test flight. In 1970, former French President Charles de Gaulle died at age 79. In 1976, the U.N. General Assembly approved resolutions condemning apartheid in South Africa, including
one characterizing the white-ruled government as “illegitimate.” In 1988, former Attorney General John N. Mitchell, a major figure in the Watergate scandal, died in Washington at age 75. In 1989, communist East Germany threw open its borders, allowing citizens to travel freely to the West; joyous Germans danced atop the Berlin Wall. In 1999, with fireworks, concerts and a huge party at the landmark Brandenburg Gate, Germany celebrated the 10th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Ten years ago: Three suicide bombers carried out nearly simultaneous attacks on three U.S.-based hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing 60 victims, and wounding hundreds. Oil executives testified before Congress that their huge profits were justified, but got a skeptical reaction from lawmakers. Carolina’s Erik Cole became the first player in NHL history to be awarded two penalty shots in
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