Jeanne Phillips
Jeanne Phillips
Jeanne Phillips, also known as Abigail Van Buren, is an American advice columnist who writes the advice column Dear Abby. She is the daughter of Pauline Esther "Popo" Phillips, who founded Dear Abby in 1956, and her husband, Morton Phillips...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
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You can be as devoted and loving a spouse or a caregiver or child, but you also have to remember that you have to program time for yourself in there, because it will renew you.
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We are very early in the process. A panel of three arbiters has been selected. We hope to hear the case in early spring 2007.
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We are very pleased with the work that's been done by city staff, and we look forward to the discussion on the 19th.
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My house was built in 1986 and it is flat with the street. When we moved in there were no houses next to us. Now they just built one and are building another higher than our house. I'm going to be in a valley, a flood zone.
people problems
People who write to 'Dear Abby' don't always have the most earthshaking problems in the world.
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Much as you would like, you are not going to change people who feel it's part of their religious commitment to 'save' you.
I know my mother has always looked at strangers as friends.
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I love my mother. I reach out to my mother.
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Women were once considered chattel, and slavery was regarded as sanctioned in the Bible. However, western society grew to recognize that neither was just.
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I'm trying to tell kids if they are gay, it's OK to be gay. I've tried to tell families if they have a gay family member to accept them and love them as they always have.
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I think everybody knows they have to be vigilant with their children. I don't have anything profound to say on that subject. We all know that we have to watch the children. The question is when does it become absolute paranoia?
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You know you don't have to be the most popular kid in the school to have people acknowledge your presence.
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People who take more than their share usually feel an inflated sense of entitlement.
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People who are angry at themselves sometimes blame others.