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WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 17: (L-R) Ninety-four-year-old activist and retired educator Opal Lee, known as the Grandmother of Juneteenth, speaks with U.S. President Joe Biden after he signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law in the East Room of the White House on June 17, 2021 in Washington, DC. The Juneteenth holiday marks the end of slavery in the United States and the Juneteenth National Independence Day will become the 12th legal federal holiday the first new one since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was signed into law in 1983. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

When I was a kid, it was hard for me to deal with perceived injustices done against me. My parents would often tell me to be the bigger person, but I hated this advice and rarely heeded it. To me, that request was akin to saying that if someone was rude to me, I was supposed to accept it and be nice to them anyway. My parents would explain to me that if I lived my truth, if I were polite to people, kindness would be contagious.

Dear Amy: I am a 32-year-old mother of three. I have a restraining order against their father after years of emotional and physical abuse endured by myself and my children. I was stuck in the vicious cycle of abuse for a long time.

Recent figures released by the federal government indicated that inflation is now running at 8.6% over last year, the largest increase in prices since 1981. And with the price of gasoline now over $5 a gallon nationwide, there can be no doubt that inflation will be a major issue in the fall 2022 elections.

Dear Amy:Recently, our adult daughter "Clare" asked us for $4,000 to help her daughter attend an extremely expensive college ($75,000 a year) on the East Coast. We had already just given Clare $5,000 (for another purpose), and we offered tuition and housing for community college. She refused.