Jeanne Phillips
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"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 Phillips, who founded "Dear Abby" in 1956, and her husband, Morton Phillips.

In a Dear Abby column on December 12, 2000, Pauline introduced Jeanne as co-creator of Dear Abby. They began to share the byline Abigail Van Buren and both were pictured with the column. Jeanne officially assumed the mantle of Dear Abby in August 2002, when the Phillips family made the announcement that Pauline had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Jeanne continues to write under the pen name "Abigail Van Buren".

Jeanne Phillips' Dear Abby is syndicated in about 1,400 newspapers in the U.S. with a combined circulation of more than 110 million. Dear Abby's website receives about 10,000 letters per week, seeking advice on a large variety of personal matters.

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I believed him, stupid me. What kind of bookkeeping is that?

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All the world's a cage.

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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.

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I just don't have a gully in front of my house to take it away. I'm more optimistic this will work than my neighbors (are optimistic).

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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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I think it will happen this week.

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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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The red shoes were visually striking on the screen. They had Technicolor and, by golly, they were going to use it.

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So you have this wonderful literary criticism in the middle of kindergarten class. The teacher says it really doesn't matter, but the first thing she did was show the children the bathroom. This is a question real children would have.

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