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DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: My grown-up family has no problem moving back home when they’re between jobs or going through broken relationships. My two “boys” are in their mid-20s, and both moved “home” after their live-in situations, but have found jobs since. COVID has eased up, so they’re going out drinking and partying again.

One asked permission to stay with us before Christmas, and got it, and then his brother showed up, after a break-up with his girlfriend on Valentine’s Day, and just moved right back into his old bedroom when I was away for work. I just didn’t know how to throw out my sad and upset son.

My husband’s younger sister, who’s been living in the basement room since her marriage broke up many months ago, is in her late 20s. So, these are not kids, but I’m cooking and cleaning for everybody, and also working full-time. My husband is not happy as we have no privacy, and he and I are paying the bills for everyone.

Prior to these “adults” moving in, I made these rules: They must buy their own groceries; do their own laundry; make their own meals; and everybody must clean up after themselves. No one listened, I guess. They just heard, “Yadda, yadda, yadda.”

NEW YORK (AP) — A journalist and former aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has a book coming out this fall, one of the first announced releases about Zelenskyy and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

One Signal Publishers announced Wednesday that it had acquired Iuliia Mendel's “The Fight of Our Lives.” Mendel served as Zelenskyy's press secretary and spokesperson from 2019-2021 and has been sending dispatches about the war to the Washington Post. According to One Signal, a Simon & Schuster imprint, Mendel will write about everything from Zelenskyy's meetings with Soviet leader Vladimir Putin to the phone calls with then-President Donald Trump that led to his impeachment for trying to pressure Zelenskyy into investigating Joe Biden.

Mendel also will write on the “massive economic problems facing Ukraine, entrenched corrupt oligarchs in league with Russia, and — in shades of the United States’ recent federal election — the Kremlin’s repeated attacks to discredit Zelenskyy through disinformation and an army of bots and trolls,” One Signal's announcement reads in part.

Mendel, 35, has written for the Post and The New York Times among others.

DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: My love life is strange right now. I went from having no boyfriend to having two I’m seeing, and a third I’m talking to on the phone at night. He’s just sniffing around, but lots of fun!

I met the first two on chats, and had lunches and dinners with them, and I’ve even gone out to a movie with one. I’m not enamoured with either, but I’ve never had so many laughs!

The third guy is all about sex, and so far we’ve only interacted by phone. And (blush!) we’ve had a lot of phone sex. That guy is definitely single and is dying to meet me. Do I have to actually meet him? He keeps sending me his pictures and he’s a cutie, alright.

I think I like keeping it on the phone, but that might be insulting to tell him. What do you think about all this?