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Pauline Phillips, better known to millions of newspaper readers as the original Dear Abby advice columnist, has died after a long battle with Alzheimer's Disease, her family said Thursday.
She died Wednesday in Minneapolis, Minnesota, at age 94.
When I was in law school (back in 1980) one of my classmates was a retired dairy farmer, age 65 or so.
During a converation this gentleman told me that he had always wanted to be a lawyer, but that he got sucked into the family business. He always kept the dream (he was a college graduate from Texas A&M), but as the years went by he started to feel 'too old'.
He told me that a year or two earlier he had been reading a Dear Abby column. A person had written:
Dear Abby,
I am 55 years old. I always wanted to go to college and get a degree, but in four years I will be 59. What should I do?
Signed,
Puzzled.
Dear Puzzled,
How old will you be in four years if you don't go to college?
The dairy farmer told me that this single answer inspired him to follow his dream. He got a standing ovation at the graduation ceremony.
I always read Dear Abby in the Tempo section of the local newspaper.
I'm afraid my answers wouldn't have been as polite as hers were. My typical answer might've started with "Dear numbnuts..."
RIP Dear Abby.
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