"If she reminds you a little of Dear Abby, it's because she is a little like Dear Abby with what seems a greater seriousness of purpose and far more professional authority in the advice she is handing out, " wrote the New York Herald Tribune in 1958.
When Rod finally sees the folly of his ways, it takes more than earnest pleadings to convince Abby he's really changed not that there's any real doubt as to how this story concludes.
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It was a risk that Abby and Brittany's parents did not want to take for fear that one of the twins might not have survived the surgery or have the same quality of life they do now.
The women's side came closer to producing a surprise as U.S. striker Abby Wambach, an Olympic champion in London, took the prize ahead of her teammate Alex Morgan and the Brazilian forward, Marta, a five-time winner.
"Dear Abby" is the world's most widely syndicated column, having appeared in 1, 400 newspapers with a daily readership of more than 110 million, the syndication service Universal Uclick said.
One of the site's main features, Ask Auntie Nolo, is the Dear Abby of law, providing FAQs on topics such as renter's security deposits.
United States striker Abby Wambach won the FIFA Women's World Player of the Year award for the first time while her former coach, Pia Sundhage, who led the U.S. to its second Olympic gold medal at London 2012, was named Women's Coach of the Year.
United States striker Abby Wambach won the FIFA Women's World Player of the Year award for the first time while her former coach, Pia Sundhage, who led the United States to its second Olympic gold medal at London 2012, was named Women's Coach of the Year.
The research at Williamsburg over the decades has yielded more than 50 million fragments of items, a 500, 000-piece trove of collected items and a network of museums under Chief Curator Ronald Hurst's direction that includes the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, the Wallace Museum and cafe, and the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum.
Though Rod's rich and snobbish family believes Abby to be a gold digger, she is in fact anything but and expects Rod to earn his living by hard work after they marry.
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That's where two of the team's most promising stars, forward Abby Wambach and fiery midfielder Shannon Boxx, have a chance to make national names for themselves prior to joining the WPS next spring.
Similar work is under way at the University of Vermont's Proctor Maple Research Center, where professor Abby van den Berg is studying whether it makes economic sense for maple syrup producers to expand into birch.
Abby Johnston, one half of the silver medal winning women's pair, embraced her partner Kelci Bryant twice.
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The author of widely syndicated advice column Dear Abby has died at 94 after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease, her publicist has said.
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In a kind of "Dear Abby" column, Ozdemir offered advice to young women, arguing Islam's compatibility with Western norms and advocating such values even when more religious Muslims rejected them.
But Rod's slothful habits (heavily lubricated by alcohol) are not easily tamed, and Abby reluctantly leaves him, having tried vainly to persuade his family and friends to help him reform.
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