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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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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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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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July 4: July 4 is the 185th day of the year (186th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 180 days remaining. The phrase "Fourth of July" has acquired widespread significance in American lingo as a reference to the Independence Day celebration in the United States and that celebration's many cultura...

1918: 1918 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar....

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