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Ask the doctors: GDF-15 and the link to hypermesis gravidarum

Dear Doctors: My daughter suffered from hyperemesis while she was pregnant two years ago, and it was truly a miserable pregnancy. Is there a way to prevent this for future pregnancies? I understand this condition is linked to the hormone GDF-15 and read that the key is to suppress it before it begins.
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10 under $10 for the weekend of Nov. 21-23

1 Custer’s 49th Annual Christmas Arts & Crafts Show – Features over 250 Artisans from across the Northwest displaying and selling their fine art, hand crafts and specialty foods. 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 21, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 22. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday Nov. 23. Spokane Fair & Expo Center, 404 N. Havana St. Admission: $9 single day, $11 3-day pass. Free parking.
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Dear Annie: Creativity, not conformity

Dear Annie: I am a high school senior trying to decide where to go to college, and I feel completely torn. My parents have made it very clear that they want me to study business. They both work in finance, and they keep saying that a business degree will “set me up for success.”
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Miss Manners: Well that’s a new one

DEAR MISS MANNERS: At a dinner event I attended at a hotel, the tables were 10-foot rounds with tablecloths that went to the floor. The dinner was buffet style, but we were all wearing semi-formal attire.
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Ask the doctors: Speech-language therapy helpful for receptive aphasia

Dear Doctors: I suffered a stroke about a year ago and have completed outpatient rehab. I have been having a problem understanding speakers at an event. I hear the sounds but can’t understand all the words. Do you know if this is common? Is there any therapy or exercises that can help?
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Dear Annie: Electing to end a friendship

Dear Annie: After 30 years of close friendship, raising kids together, losing our parents and a very good mutual friend, traveling together with our families and so much more, my friend told me after the election last year that she had trouble being around “people like me.” In other words, I voted wrongly. I told her that I loved her and that our friendship means more to me than political differences and her response was, “It’s not that simple for me.”
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Miss Manners 11/14

DEAR MISS MANNERS: What is the polite way to eat large sushi rolls? Sometimes they’re too big to comfortably eat whole without gagging!
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Comedian Lucas Zelnick mixes personal with the political

Lucas Zelnick grew up when Will Ferrell, Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson were constantly topping box offices, a “golden age for comedy movies” like “Zoolander,” “Dodgeball,” “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby,” “Step Brothers” and “Old School.”