For decades, Phillips' column competed with the Ann Landers advice column written by her twin sister Esther Friedman Lederer.

BBC: 'Dear Abby' author Pauline Friedman Phillips dies at 94

At first she ran it with her twin sister Pauline, but they fell out for a time after Pauline started her own successful advice column.

ECONOMIST: Esther Lederer, agony aunt, died on June 22nd, aged 83