# Dear Abby

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-abby/116840>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 1, 2002, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-abby/116840 "2002-07-01T15:39:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-abby/116840/1 "2002-07-01T15:39:43Z")

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Did I miss it, or did Dear Abby not do a column on her sister’s death (Ann Landers?)

All I’ve read are normal columns…I would have thought she would have done a column on her sister.

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**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-abby/116840/2 "2002-07-01T17:34:29Z")

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Jeanne Phillips (Abby’s daughter) wrote one today, at least according to my e-mail newsletter version. (It doesn’t always align with what’s in the paper.) Some papers might hold it until July 4, Ann and Abby’s birthday.

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**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-abby/116840/3 "2002-07-01T19:16:54Z")

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Scarlett, what’s your e-mail newsletter? I was getting them from E-mazing, but after Ann Landers death they substituted the Dear Abby column with Daybreak.

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**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-abby/116840/4 "2002-07-02T01:00:26Z")

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Here you go:

Subscribe for FREE and get Dear Abby delivered daily.  
Visit: [http://www.shagmail.com/sub/sub-abby.html](http://www.shagmail.com/sub/sub-abby.html)

I read Ann Landers at the Washington Post site, along with Miss Manners. Wonder what they’ll do when the columns run out on July 27 (according to the Post)?

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**Author:** ![Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2002, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-abby/116840/5 "2002-07-07T03:13:51Z")

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She said the Ann Landers name would die with her, so I guess this will be it. The L.A. Times seems to have been preparing for the inevitable death of either Ann or Abby by working in another advice column called _Tell Me About it_.