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Our neighbors keep on copying whatever we do

DEAR ABBY: My husband and I have been friends with another couple for many years. We would get together occasionally, and we mostly enjoyed their company. When the house across the street from ours became available, they bought it. 

Not long after they moved in, the wife began copying our interior and exterior design elements and one night stood in our kitchen and said, “Well you know, everything’s a competition.” To say we were dismayed would be an understatement. My husband and I spent many years collecting vintage furniture and other items to create a distinctive home. It has been a labor of love. 

Six months ago, we installed a unique garage door, unlike anything in the neighborhood. Abby, within three months she installed the exact same one! Are we wrong to find it crass and disrespectful? 

We no longer want to spend time with them but don’t want to completely sever the connection because they are neighbors, and we also have some mutual friends. Moving is not an option; this is our home. What should we do? — FED UP IN OHIO

DEAR FED UP: I understand why you are frosted and need to distance yourself. Who wants to be close to someone who considers “everything” to be a competition? Perhaps it will lessen your frustration to remember that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, while you learn to accept things you cannot change. Of course it is in your best interest to keep things cordial, but it might be better if you no longer invite this woman into your home.

DEAR ABBY: I lost my beautiful mother six years ago. While, of course, I miss her terribly, something else has been bothering me that I’m having trouble getting over. I allowed my cousin on my dad’s side of the family to come to the hospital to see me and pay her respects, which didn’t bother me. It’s what occurred next that I have the big issue with. 

When my cousin left the hospital, she jumped straight on Facebook and posted for everyone to see “RIP, Aunt Sally.” Everyone who was friends with Mom saw the post, which meant she announced my mom’s passing before I had even had time to process it all. I was extremely hurt, angry, sad and shocked that she would do that. 

It still bothers me as it’s not something that can be undone. I was still lying beside my mom crying and trying to say goodbye to her when my phone started blowing up with messages and notifications. How can I get past the betrayal I feel? I have had very little contact with that cousin since. — HURT IN FLORIDA

DEAR HURT: Please accept my sympathy for the loss of your mother. In this internet age, it’s not unusual for people to post their feelings online. Your cousin may have been venting rather than intending to make a formal announcement of your mother’s passing. The problem with posting is that once it’s on there, it is out there for everyone to see and react to. 

I do think this is something you should discuss with your cousin, who may not have realized how her online sentiments affected you on that sad and stressful day. You deserve an apology for her insensitivity.

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at http://www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

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Accused Idaho killer Bryan Kohberger ‘never slept’: neighbor

PULLMAN, Wash. — Bryan Kohberger’s downstairs neighbor said the alleged quadruple slayer “never slept” — and looked too weak to kill.

The neighbor, who asked to remain anonymous, told The Post Sunday that Kohberger usually kept to himself but could always be heard at odd hours.

“He’s normally a very late night person, going to the bathroom and vacuuming at 1 or 12 in the morning,” she said “I have kids, so sometimes I thought of speaking to him or complaining, but never did. 

“It seemed like he never slept because he was always doing something all night.”

She and her husband were in complete shock when their upstairs neighbor was named as the suspect in the brutal University of Idaho murders that rocked the community. 

“I don’t know how he could’ve killed people because he doesn’t look that tough,” she said. “We are all Ph.D students here so it takes a lot of hard work and smarts to get to this point. You don’t think someone like that could do something like this.”

Kohberger, who was studying criminology at Washington State University Pullman, was living in student housing that was usually meant for Ph.D students with families. He moved there in August, the neighbor said. 

“At first he moved in by himself and we thought his family would come later, but he lived there alone,” she recalled. 

She said she once saw someone who looked like another young female student get out of Kohberger’s white car, but they parted ways and went to their own apartments.

The neighbor, also a graduate student, said she and the accused killer would say hello to each other in passing, and she once heard Kohberger bring a woman home. She didn’t see the woman, but the walls are thin so she heard Kohberger and the woman talking. 

The State Police Forensics Unit left with bags of evidence on Friday from the Washington State University dorm where suspect Bryan Kohberger lived.
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A neighbor at the apartment complex said Kohberger never seemed to sleep.
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Some residents who lived nearby told Fox News he kept a low-profile. 

“I’d see him go check his mail, that was it. Other than that, I’ve only seen him like twice the whole time, and I’ve lived here since July 2021,” Justin Williams, a 34-year-old employee at WSU who lives in an adjacent building to Kohberger told Fox News. 

Police believe the accused murderer acted alone, but details about what led law enforcement to him remain scant. 

Kohberger is currently in Pennsylvania jail after his Friday arrest at this parent’s home. 

Once he appears in Idaho court, officials can legally release Kohberger’s probable cause affidavit, which should shed some light on how he was nabbed nearly seven weeks after the shock slayings.

Kohberger “is eager to be exonerated of these charges and looks forward to resolving these matters as promptly as possible,” his public defender Jason LaBar said in a statement.

Final photo of the victims, pictured just hours before their untimely deaths: Madison Mogen, 21, top left, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, bottom left, Ethan Chapin, 20, center, and Xana Kernodle, 20, right.

His family on Sunday in a statement released by LaBar that they are standing by their son in an effort to “promote his presumption of innocence.”

Kohberger is accused of fatally stabbing students Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin on Nov. 13. Police said they have yet to locate a murder weapon. 

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