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Editor's note on earlier draft: June, please add a seat back behind Jared. He should not be sitting on Jess's bed.

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Crying on Jared is appropriate when she has one eye swollen shut and it is difficult to aim her tears directly onto his shoulder.

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Maybe I don't know how things work in hospitals. I always assumed that if a trained physicians assistant was assigned to provide treatment, that they would know the name of the patient they were treating. And they'd never forget a name like Bender because Mr. Bender went on a bender before beating up his wife, which was supposed to be funny, I guess?

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I once had a procedure that was pretty rough, and for which I should have been sedated, but I wasn't because my doctor was EVIL. The nurse held my hand through the entire thing, and I can't tell you how much I still appreciate it to this day. It removed a lot of the trauma of the event. So I can relate to how grateful the assault victim feels toward Jared. I just hope this doesn't cross any ethical boundaries, since she seems to know a violent man who may not share her appreciation for Jared. Or Jared's love for Star Wars.

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It's Queen's Birthday Day in New Zealand. Everybody take the day off.

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The juxtaposition in the panels above is marvelous. It clearly shows that Jared is a much better person than Dawn.

The juxtaposition in panel below is also marvelous. It clearly shows how Dawn is a much better dancer than Jared:

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If you were like me, there was that brief moment when you thought that everyone's prediction about Dawn ending up at the hospital with Jared actually happened. I'm not saying it won't happen, but I really did think, "Oh, my -- wait, that's not Dawn." And then you just fixated on how Jared was reaching all the way across a hospital bed to hold the poor woman's hand about as awkwardly as I've ever seen.

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That's what Jared's mother said about naked yoga, and look how that turned out!

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So we FINALLY meet Dawn's old pal Cathy! I've always imagined Cathy as a good influence on Dawn, and today's strip supports that. But Dawn has no intention of being honest with Jared because she worries about his happiness. That's why she's dressed to discourage any attention from the men at the club.

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After two years of dating, Dawn and Jared are exhausted. The romance is just gone. Jared's priority is clearly work and we all know Dawn won't stand for that. Dawn's priority is clearly school even though we all know she will never graduate. It's funny to me that Dawn has been in college since long before I started reading Mary Worth in 2006. She's dated Jared for two years (in both Mary Worth and Real World time), just after he completed his Physician's Asssistant qualifications (a 3-year program), and met him three years before they started dating, so about the time he went back to school. The timeline supports Dawn's never-ending-status as a student.