dear abby

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Who needs advice? Where do you go to get it? Is the advice any good?

jbb316 @jbb316 (1779) • United States 14 Nov 17

Who is your go to person, your reliable source, your confidante. What helps you through those difficult situations in life. I personally love reading the Dear Abby and Dear Anne columns and even the modern Dear somebody blogs....

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"Dear Abby" Columnist Dies At 94

Artemeis @artemeis (4189) • China 17 Jan 13

Not sure if any of you are a fan of the advice column "Dear Abby" where I am a real fan and follower who has read almost all of her write ups and learned so much from this columnist. Pauline Friedman Phillips, who wrote the...

abigail van buren

newspaper column

pauline friedman phillips

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I think the "victim" is in the wreong here...

LilyoftheThorns @LilyoftheThorns (12918) • United States 8 Mar 11

I read a Dear Abby column and I couldn't believe what I was reading!!! And even more I couldn't believe that Abby agreed with the guy who wrote in to her!!! Here's the story: A guy wrote Abby telling her that while he was in...

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Today's Dear Abby moment - journalist mom

TheRealDawn @dawnald (85137) • Shingle Springs, California 16 Dec 10

Abby's readers are responding to a previous column about a mom who has kept a daily journal about her son for 22 years. Son is now married with a son on the way, and mom is wondering if she should give him the journal. Some of the...

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I couldn't Believe It!!

LilyoftheThorns @LilyoftheThorns (12918) • United States 19 Oct 10

Ok, so as I have said in previous discussions, I don't regularly read the dear abby section in the paper, but one of the headlines caught my attention and I had to read this story, and I was shocked!! The woman writing to Abby...

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Is my Lot The "New" Dear Abby?

doulaworks @doulaworks (1079) • United States 20 Dec 08

Lots of folks think up really good questions and I see a lok of people asking for opinions. It reminds me of the old letters to Dear Abby, OR Ann Landers. (which is still going even today taken over by her daughter) any how. I...

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You want to use my what????

ebsharer @ebsharer (5515) • United States 11 Aug 08

Okay all MyLotters I was just reading Dear Abby as I do every day. One of the questions to her was from a lady that is having her house remodeled. Her issue is the workers asking to use her bathroom. Quoted from the list listed...

using the restroom

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I just read a "dear abby" and want your thoughts PLEASE...

ebsharer @ebsharer (5515) • United States 30 Jul 08

Here is the link - The one I want to talk about is the second "question" http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucda/20080729/lf_ucda/wifewholeftandnevercamebacknowtalksofcominghome AS QUOTED FROM THE SITE: [i]DEAR ABBY: My son-in-law,...

husband or daughter

what would you do

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Why would a parent do this?

Bd200789 @Bd200789 (2994) • United States 13 May 08

I rarely read "Dear Abby", but my mom asked me to read it today. A child's grandparents wrote in saying the child's dad and his wife won't let the child, Connor, who is five years old, see his grandparents because the grandfather...

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Bank deposit slip included with the wedding invitation......

LCecelia @LCecelia (1124) • United States 17 Aug 07

How's that for etiquette? And not to mention, bad taste? How would you feel if you received THAT invitation? Me? They would have NEVER heard back from me. Again I got this from a Dear Abby column. She too thought it was...

wedding invitation

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Who is Abby? Why do people always ask her questions?

yxinxin @yxinxin (467) • China 24 Apr 07

In this colum I read some jokes,bebinning with "Dear Abby". I enjoy the jokes but I don't quite understand.I want to know who is Abby and why people ask her questions. Anybody knows? Thanks!

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Dear Abby

raydene @raydene (9871) • United States 23 Apr 07

Ask Abby Dear Abby, I have a man I never could trust. He cheats so much I'm not even sure this baby I'm carrying is his. Dear Abby, A couple of women moved in across the hall from me. One is a middle-aged gym teacher and...

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Does anyone here read

sabrinam @sabrinam (1203) • United States 6 Nov 06

Dear Abby? Why do you read it? I read it everyday...

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