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Dear Annie: My sister lives across the country and recently lost her husband. She doesn’t have much of a support system ...
If you have more than one adult child, how do you choose which should be your executor without offending the others? Here are a few considerations.
Dear Quentin, I’m the youngest of four kids. My dad died in 1990 at age 70. My mom died in 2018 at 96 after 10-plus years of ...
In the days after his death, I moved through the world in a daze. The grief was crushing, but it wasn’t just that. I began to ...
I don’t want to listen to her petty attacks. Should I say something privately to her? To him? Or should I just mind my own ...
I find it impractical to spend a couple hundred dollars on a floral arrangement that will soon be dead, and would prefer to ...
DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am wondering if it would be crass or in poor taste to give a new widow a thoughtful sympathy card with ...
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.