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Pauline Phillips, longtime Dear Abby advice columnist, dies at 94
CNN ^ | 1/17/13 | Michael Martinez

Posted on 01/17/2013 3:05:27 PM PST by Borges

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1 posted on 01/17/2013 3:05:37 PM PST by Borges
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To: Borges

RIP Dear Abby.


2 posted on 01/17/2013 3:07:52 PM PST by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: Borges

Dear Abby,

I feel like everyone I’ve ever depended on has died and left me alone. My mother died two years ago. Not long afterwards my father passed away and, just after that I lost both my sister any my wife in the same week. I’m always feeling like anyone I depend on is going to die. How can I get over this, Abby? It’s beginning to feel like you’re all I have left.

Signed,
Cursed by Death in Dallas


3 posted on 01/17/2013 3:08:38 PM PST by mnehring
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To: Borges

RIP. She received her full measure in life; what else can we hope for?


4 posted on 01/17/2013 3:10:02 PM PST by rockvillem
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To: Borges

From good advice, to lefty advice, that column sure adapted to the 1970s quickly.


5 posted on 01/17/2013 3:31:16 PM PST by ansel12 (Cruz said "conservatives trust Sarah Palin that if she says this guy is a conservative, that he is")
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To: Borges

RIP.


6 posted on 01/17/2013 3:34:39 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: ansel12

As an only child, I was dismayed and disgusted when “Dear Abby” warned women to avoid men who were only children because they are selfish.That kind of ignorant advice was typical of her column. I,for one, wish her column had ended 50 years ago.


7 posted on 01/17/2013 3:37:29 PM PST by hoosierham (Freedom isn't free)
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To: hoosierham

I tend to agree with her as they tend to be self absorbed
& petulant. :0)


8 posted on 01/17/2013 3:45:05 PM PST by alice_in_bubbaland (When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes mandatory- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Borges
Dear Abby,

Why are there so many liberal dumbasses in this country and how can this country have fallen so far that an illegimate Marxist Muslim can occupy the White House and keep a whole nation hostage and nothing be done about his treasnous actions by a cowardly Congress?

Signed,
Baffled as hell
9 posted on 01/17/2013 3:56:59 PM PST by crosshairs (They are only assault weapons in the hands of tyrannical governments and criminals. Ban both.)
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To: hoosierham

I have an old book by Dear Abby, and you can see how her advice was conservative, and then instantly adopted the left’s agenda with feminism and accepting of new social positions.

It went from good advice to ‘life is too short for a bad marriage, move on’.


10 posted on 01/17/2013 3:57:37 PM PST by ansel12 (Cruz said "conservatives trust Sarah Palin that if she says this guy is a conservative, that he is")
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To: Borges

The sisters grew up in a religious Jewish home in Iowa, but became worldly and liberal.


11 posted on 01/17/2013 4:02:31 PM PST by iowamark
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To: Borges; HiJinx; Kathy in Alaska; AZamericonnie; LUV W

RIP Abby.


12 posted on 01/17/2013 4:04:17 PM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Borges; HiJinx; Kathy in Alaska; AZamericonnie; LUV W

RIP Abby.


13 posted on 01/17/2013 4:07:39 PM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: ansel12

And yet...

“She is survived by her husband of 73 years”


14 posted on 01/17/2013 4:08:02 PM PST by Borges
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To: SandRat

Aww.....

Actually, I thought she had already died. Not funny, but I guess when her daughter took over her column, I thought it was because she was deceased.


15 posted on 01/17/2013 4:24:46 PM PST by luvie (All my heroes wear camos!)
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To: alice_in_bubbaland

I lump personal advice columnists along with astrolgers as charlatans preying on the weak-minded.


16 posted on 01/17/2013 5:03:13 PM PST by hoosierham (Freedom isn't free)
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To: Borges

Lot’s of lefties have long marriages, what is the point?


17 posted on 01/17/2013 5:58:11 PM PST by ansel12 (Cruz said "conservatives trust Sarah Palin that if she says this guy is a conservative, that he is")
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To: ansel12

It’s just a contrast from her advice to give up on a marriage given at the first sign of problems.


18 posted on 01/17/2013 7:22:21 PM PST by Borges
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To: hoosierham

The difference being that astrology is total bunk but good advice is good advice in any walk of life. It’s just a question of where it’s coming from.


19 posted on 01/17/2013 7:24:01 PM PST by Borges
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To: mnehring

www.dearmrsweb.com


20 posted on 01/17/2013 7:25:21 PM PST by Chickensoup (200 million unarmed people killed in the 20th century by Leftist Totalitarian Fascists)
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