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The Greatest Sibling RivalriesAnn Landers and Dear Abby Dueling columns " Dear Abby " and "Ask Ann Landers," have meted out advice to thousands of newspaper under the penname Abigail Van Buren , launched a competing column " Dear Abby ," the following
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Dear Abby's Pauline Phillips Dies at 94Pauline Phillips , the woman world as " Dear Abby ," died original Dear Abby officially world as " Dear Abby ," Phillips reading the advice column that pseudonym " Abigail Van Buren ," Phillips Lederer became advice columnist Ann Landers
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Chef Sara Moulton Answers Your Cooking QuestionsDo you have any ideas for getting through the holidays without making three different main courses? Sara, please be my Dear Abby , and give me your wisdom! Sara's Answer: KalMarie, I feel your pain. Dietary restrictions are a huge issue these days
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Love Knows No Boundaries With Dan Savagestarted his advice column, "Savage probably make Abigail van Buren of " Dear Abby " blush heterosexual advice columnists had Savage be its advice columnist , Savage said to write an advice column where
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'Dear GMA' Entry: Are You Our Next Advice Guru?nationwide search for a 21st century Advice Guru. This is a full time years of age, I started reading Dear Abby in my local Ottumwa, Iowa newspaper growing up and one day becoming Dear Abby . After all, Dear Abby was living proof that big things
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Advice for a Stress-Free Pregnancy in a RecessionTori Kropp is known as the " Dear Abby " for pregnant women around the world. A decade ago, she created the enormously popular Web site, www.storksite.com , where
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'Joy of Sex' Reinvented for Today's LoversQuilliam, readers are still looking for answers, nearly three decades later. As an "agony aunt" -- the British equivalent of Dear Abby -- she fields 25,000 letters a year. "I get a whole age range and a lot of letters from men," she said. "They are
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New 'Joy of Sex' to Hit U.S. Shelves in January
Quilliam, readers are still looking for answers. As an advice columnist -- or "agony aunt" as they're known in England, the British equivalent of Dear Abby -- she fields 25,000 letters a year. "I get a
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'20/20' Friday: What Makes People Happy?from our grandmother to our bartender to the taxi driver to Dear Abby has some prescription for the happy life. Turns out that if he is far from a millionaire, Sean Aiken can relate to that advice . He is on his way toward working 52 jobs in 52 weeks as part
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Confession is just a keypad away
Confessions magazine was an outlet for transgressors to clear their consciences. In the '50s, Dear Abby and Ann Landers offered more than advice ; readers could sympathize or chastise others for their wayward lives. Daytime talk shows
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Twins Separated as Infants Reunite Later in Lifeit," read part of a poem my mother clipped from a " Dear Abby " column and pasted into the inside cover of my baby book have no reflection in a mirror or in water. They provide advice to the person they shadow, which can be misleading or
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Get Well Soon, Britney!
Instead of Dear Abby , it's become Dear Britney. Britney Spears has almost completed her 30-day stint in rehab, and if you want to send the troubled
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Dear Juliet …
have written to Giulietta in search of advice , sympathy, an attentive ear, or as their emotions. This Italian version of " Dear Abby " is so popular that the Verona-based their hearts out or seek relationship advice from a girl who killed herself for her
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'Dear Abby' Columnist, Pauline Phillips , Dies at Age 94her real name. Dear abby , the pioneering queen of salty advice . Well, today who was really pauline phillips , died at the the one that has dear abby . Oh! Reporter life. Reporter: Pauline phillips told larry king chicago tribune." Dear abby and ann landers careers. Her frank advice was sometimes
your straight-talking, funny friend, even if you never knew her real name. Dear abby , the pioneering queen of salty advice . Well, today, the woman who was really pauline phillips , died at the age of 94. And abc's david wright tells us about the column that changed a culture. Reporter: She was google and groucho all in one. Delivering wise one-liners in answer to any question. A reader once asked, is it possible to get pregnant under water? Her response, not without a man. Her audience was bigger than oprah's. Now, I asked her, what paper would you buy? I read the one that has dear abby . Oh! Reporter: Fozzie bear's favorite, decker's too. Dear bi, iabby, I'm a serial killer. Reporter: Because dear abby always judged problems with common sense -- without judging her readers too harshly. I never worked a day in my life. Reporter: Pauline phillips told larry king she got her big break when she barged into the editor's office at "the san francisco chronicle." He said, don't call us, we'll call you. Leave your name at the desk. Reporter: She started the very next day. That was 1956. Three months earlier, her twin sister had been hired to write a similar column for "the chicago tribune." Dear abby and ann landers -- really the friedman sisters of sioux city, iowa -- would go on to be rivals for the rest of their careers. Her frank advice was sometimes shocking in its day. 1970. Dear abby , recently our 21-year-old daughter came out to us and told us she was in love with another girl. Dear mother, if your daughter is happy with what she is, then you who profess to love her must accept her as she is or not at all. Dear abby changed with the times and helped america change, too. David wright, abc news, los angeles. -
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Sept. 4, 1980: Abbie Hoffman Interviewthe Kennedy flinch I think. This I ducked inside emotionally. Are actually physically duck because it means that is a danger word that the danger signal. Okay He arrived back at me dear Abby I I turn the page of the Paper and read violent.
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