Dear Ann Landers, 'm a bachelor, forty-two, and have been keeping company for three years with a pleasant but not beautiful widow who is thirty-six. We live in the same apart-ment building. About five nights a week she'd have me in for dinner. (I must say she was a fine cook.) Three times in the last month when the telephone rang she'd pick it up and say, "I'm sorry but you have the wrong number." Once I stood near the phone and I heard a man's voice. After these calls she always seemed flustered. I began to suspect she was having an affair on the sly. I told her so in plain language. She broke down and cried and ordered me to leave-for good. I phoned her twice last week, but she was very distant and unfriendly. I guess I was a little hasty. Please help me fix things up.-Red
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Dear Readers, , been married less than a year, and I’m ready to give my bride back to her father. Things I once considered cute now get on my nerves. When she used to get mad and pout, I thought it was adorable. Now I’d like to paste her one in the mush and put her lower lip back where it belongs. Last night we were watching TV. I sat through two hours of junk because she wanted to watch cer-tain shows. Then I said, “OK, now I want to see Lassie.” She said, “That’s not a real dog. It’s a person in an animal outfit and I don’t want to see it.” I insisted on getting the channel so she pulled the plug out of the wall and said, “All right, then let’s both read.” I have never hit a woman in my life but I came close that night. Should I talk to her parents?-Dutch
