Frankly My Dear, I Don’t Give a Damn

Tarah Lyczenski isn’t happy with her father, who started dating another woman before his divorce from her mother was final. So she has installed a 7-foot-tall red “A” in her mother’s front yard, inspired by the classic The Scarlet Letter novel by Nathanial Hawthorne. “We were raised with high morals,” Lyczenski said. “I told my dad that we’ll take it down if he stops living with her.” Her dad, Tim, isn’t fazed. “They’re trying to do it to embarrass me,” he said, “but they’re doing a better job of embarrassing themselves. They see it as an affair. I’m 48 years old, and I see it as a relationship.” He hasn’t seen the display, since a restraining order requires he stay away from his ex-wife’s Sunnyside, Wash., house. (UPI) ...Then the “A” seems to stand for Addlebrained, rather than Adulterer.