'Dear Abby' advice columnist Pauline Friedman Phillips dies at age 94

Thursday, January 17, 2013 | 6:26 p.m. CST

MINNEAPOLIS — Pauline Friedman Phillips, who as Dear Abby dispensed snappy, sometimes saucy advice on love, marriage and meddling mothers-in-law to millions of newspaper readers around the world and opened the way for the likes of Dr. Ruth, Dr. Phil and Oprah, has died. She was 94.

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