DEAR ABBY: After a sincere but futile effort to make her marriage work, our daughter, Barbara (her real name), decided it was hopeless, so she has filed for divorce.
Since her father and I officially announced her marriage by sending engraved announcements to friends and family, we think it fitting and proper to do the same for her upcoming divorce.Perhaps this has never been done before, but we feel that it will set the record straight officially, and we hope that friends and relatives will not call to ask us if what they heard is true. - BARBARA'S PARENTS
DEAR PARENTS: Your "idea" is both clever and practical, but it has indeed been done before.
A few authentic divorce announcements that were actually sent (names have been changed):
SPLIT
After Six Years
Lester and Betty
Have seen the light
Married November 8, 1966
Divorced November 6, 1972
Both are happily back in circulation.
Call Lester: 555-6500 (after 9 p.m.)
Betty: 555-1115 (anytime)
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Mr. and Mrs. Victor C. Holmes
take great pleasure in announcing
the divorce of their daughter
Caroline Sue
from
their erstwhile son-in-law
Mr. Thomas Cunningham
effective immediately
Atlanta, Georgia
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WITH HAPPY HEARTS
Lionel and Jane announce with pleasure
the severance of all legal
and/or other bonds that may have
existed between their daughter
Janet and That Boy
With the new month of August
Janet enters into a new and
beautiful single life
As for That Boy - May the Great
Honcho in the sky love him and
Keep him - someplace else
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Dr. and Mrs. Theodore L. Weisenheimer
request the honor of your presence
at the fleecing by their daughter
Sara Ann
of
Harold A. Galinsky
the slob she married back in 1965
Divorce
to be Solemnized
on Friday, the seventeenth of August
Nineteen hundred and seventy-three
at two o'clock in the afternoon
Division Y of the Civil District Court
Celebration following at our home
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IT'S OFFICIAL
Coleen and Michael G. Lamour
have parted
amicably and without rancor
Coleen is once again happily
Ms. Coleen Mahoney
Residing at the Honeycreek Towers
Michael's permanent residence
is now on his boat
"I Pagliacci"
Where he will continue to drift
aimlessly . . . forever
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