DEAR HARRIETTE: My mom’s friend is on the hunt for a nice wife for his son and thinks I’d be a great fit. This matchmaker is an older man I know from church, but I’ve never met his son before. My mom asked if I’d be open to hanging out with him and his family just to meet the son and see how I feel. I thought it would be awkward to say no and see the dad at church every week, so I agreed.
• Do you know what the No. 1 most recycled product is? It’s not what you might think: It’s car batteries. Almost all of the car battery is recyclable. Sixty percent of it is lead, which can be recycled and used for other metal products. The three pounds of plastic is also reclaimed and used in the manufacturing of new batteries. And the sulfuric acid inside is safely captured and recycled in new batteries. If you replace your battery at a dealer or auto shop, your battery is recycled. If you have old car batteries at home, take them to any auto shop, and it’ll recycle them free of charge for you.
DEAR HARRIETTE: Before my boyfriend and I were an item, he and his childhood crush dated for almost 10 years and had two children together.
Dear Doctors: A vendor at our weekend farmers market was telling his customers about something called the “Dirty Dozen” list. Apparently it has to do with pesticides and shopping for produce?
Once Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the news anchors and reporters and podcasters – and anyone else with an excuse or a budget to go to Rome – have gone home, there will still be a market for details about the new pope.
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DEAR HARRIETTE: I overheard my girlfriend on the phone with someone discussing an important work event she was meant to attend. Her colleague, whom I’ve met a few times, said they’d given her a plus one and mentioned that my girlfriend would probably want to have me there, too. To my surprise, she denied the need for a plus one, saying that I didn’t need to be there and that she’d rather fly solo this time around. For some reason, hearing her refusal really stung.
Dear Doctors: I was having stomach pain and some nausea. The doctor found bacteria in my stomach, and I was diagnosed with a gastric ulcer. Now I’m being told that I should get screened for stomach cancer.
There has been a certain escalatory logic in the resistance to Donald Trump’s rise to the presidency. In the very beginning, when few took him seriously, they laughed at him. Then they tried to defeat him in the 2016 election. Then some frantically searched for a way to prevent him from taking office. Meanwhile, U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies spied on his campaign and opened an investigation into him. Then they hoped the investigation would lead to impeachment, which would then lead to his removal. Then, when the investigation – the Trump-Russia probe conducted by former Justice Department special counsel Robert Muller – went bust, they turned on a dime and impeached Trump for something else.
DEAR HARRIETTE: I am struggling right now, emotionally and financially.