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From ‘agony columns’ to Dear Abby, advice columns have long helped readers confess their secret problems | Canada Voices

Open this photo in gallery:Advice columnist Ann Landers, right, and her twin sister, Abigail Van Buren, who also wrote an advice column as Dear Abby.The Associated PressLong before Reddit threads, relationship podcasts or virtual therapists, there was the advice column. Often tucked between a newspaper’s classifieds section and the comics, it was a place where readers could confess secret troubles they dared not tell their spouse, their neighbours or even good friends.In the early days, around the Second World War, these so-called “agony columns” focused on homemaking and etiquette quandaries and were a way for print publications to attract more…

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