'Dear Abby' advice columnist dies at age 94. MINNEAPOLIS â Pauline Friedman Phillips, who under the name of Abigail Van Buren, wrote the long-running Dear Abby advice column that was followed by millions of newspaper readers throughout the world, has died. She was 94.
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