In 1956, Phillips was new to the San Francisco area when she called the editor of the San Francisco Chronicle to tell him she could write a better advice column than the one she had just read, her syndicate Universal Uclick said.

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His wife called him at work Saturday morning to tell him she could see the looming smoke.

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She called her husband as soon as she could get cell reception after the tornado passed to tell him she loved him.

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Something in Jimbo, she could tell, decided then that his father left him because of his needing toys and wanting to play with Juggy.

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"I mean, I could tell him anything, and he wouldn't say anything to anybody, " she continued.

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"You could definitely tell he was a genius, " Israel told CNN, adding she hadn't talked with him since middle school.

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