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Phillips wrote under the pen name of Abigail Van Buren, shortened to "Dear Abby" in newspapers.
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Dear Abby could seem like a current-events class, touching on divorce, abortion, working mothers, premarital sex, drugs and civil rights.
WSJ: 'Dear Abby' Advice Columnist Pauline Friedman Phillips Dies at 94
Dear Abby, which Ms. Phillips began in 1956, had a staggering reach.
WSJ: 'Dear Abby' Advice Columnist Pauline Friedman Phillips Dies at 94
The first "Dear Abby" column appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle on Jan. 9, 1956, the same year it was first syndicated.
One of the site's main features, Ask Auntie Nolo, is the Dear Abby of law, providing FAQs on topics such as renter's security deposits.
The author of widely syndicated advice column Dear Abby has died at 94 after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease, her publicist has said.
BBC: 'Dear Abby' author Pauline Friedman Phillips dies at 94
So wrote Pauline Phillips, a California housewife who became a household name across the nation as the cheeky syndicated columnist Dear Abby.
In her 30-plus years as Dear Abby, Phillips answered inquiries from all types: teenage girls, teenage boys, young women, exasperated mothers-in-law, elderly widows and widowers.
The first Dear Abby column appeared in 1956, and Phillips solely wrote the advice feature until 2000, when she and daughter Jeanne began sharing the byline.
"Dear Abby" is the world's most widely syndicated column, having appeared in 1, 400 newspapers with a daily readership of more than 110 million, the syndication service Universal Uclick said.
In a kind of "Dear Abby" column, Ozdemir offered advice to young women, arguing Islam's compatibility with Western norms and advocating such values even when more religious Muslims rejected them.
What we can take from Phillips aka Dear Abby is a healthy respect for the joy that life delivers but an understanding that if you really want to give advice you cannot pull punches.
It could once have sought counsel from two of the most famous people ever born there: twin sisters Ann Landers (Eppie Lederer) and Dear Abby (Pauline Phillips), who left Sioux City to become the two most renowned newspaper advice columnists in history.
"If she reminds you a little of Dear Abby, it's because she is a little like Dear Abby with what seems a greater seriousness of purpose and far more professional authority in the advice she is handing out, " wrote the New York Herald Tribune in 1958.
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