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| | Advice columnist Ann Landers dead at 83 - Newsday.com |
 | | Frank, feisty, funny, with a voice as brash as her advice, Eppie Lederer—better known as Ann Landers, advice-giver to the world—had a ready answer for people who wondered why strangers turned to her for help with their most intimate problems. |
 | | Lederer is survived by a daughter, Margo Howard of Cambridge, Mass., three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren, and her sister and competitor in the advice column business, Pauline Esther “PoPo” Phillips, also known as Abigail Van Buren, author of the Dear Abby column. |
 | | Later, he found it came to dominate her letters, along with frank advice about masturbation, penile implants and homosexuality, topics editors would have axed if she’d mentioned them 30 years before. |
| www.newsday.com /entertainment/chi-020622landers,0,270208.story (862 words) |
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