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Article: Advice columns expected to survive passing of Ann Landers.
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- Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI)
- Article date:
- July 26, 2002
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Byline: Julie Hinds
Advice columnists: Are you better off with them or without them?
When Ann Landers died on June 22, she was hailed as the woman who brought the advice column into the modern age.
Now that her frank, funny answers are no more, readers are asking the same question: Who's going to fill her shoes?
Landers, whose real name was Esther Pauline Lederer, was aware of how impossible she'd be to replace. Before her passing, she decided to retire her pen name upon her death.
There'll never be another Ann Landers. She made sure of it.
But what about the advice game in general? Is its future secure? Or are there ...