Dear Abby

Pauline Esther Friedman Phillips founded Dear Abby in 1956. (The current Dear Abby is her daughter, Jeanne Phillips, who now writes under the pen name of Abigail Van Buren.) Pauline Phillips was born July 4, 1918.

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July 4 - 1918

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Pauline Phillips was an identical twin; her sister, Esther Pauline Friedman Lederer, wrote the Ann Landers column until her death from multiple myeloma in 2002. As children, the two grew up in Sioux City, Iowa, and went by the nicknames "Popo" and "Eppie", respectively. They were so close then that they even had a joint wedding in 1939 when both women were 21 years old.

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Identical twin - Ann Landers - Myeloma - 2002 - Sioux City - Iowa - 1939

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Pauline Phillips, who resided in Beverly Hills, California, wrote in a straightforward style that contrasted with Lederer's quips and barbs. By 1985, Pauline began to suffer from the onset of Alzheimer?s disease. In 1987, Jeanne Phillips assumed all the writing responsibilities of Dear Abby. After the Phillips family publicly announced that Pauline had Alzheimer?s, Jeanne assumed the pen name of Abigail Van Buren.

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Pauline Esther Friedman Phillips has suffered from Alzheimer's disease for a number of years, but according to her family, she did reconcile with her now deceased sister, Esther (Ann Landers), long before Landers' death.

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