Dear Abby Author Dies at 94

The Takeaway

Pauline Phillips, the woman who started the Dear Abby column and the industry of anonymous advice publishing along with it, died on Wednesday in Minneapolis at the age of 94. Carolyn Hax writes an advice column for the Washington Post.

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