Dear Abby: My ex-lover wants nothing to do with me as I care for my disabled wife
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Loaded Language
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Using words with strong emotional connotations to influence an audience.
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Name Calling / Labeling
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Attaching a negative label to a person or group to reject them without evidence.
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3 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.
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“Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips”
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Multiple Wikipedia entries explicitly state that Jeanne Phillips is the current writer of the Dear Abby column and uses the pen name Abigail Van Buren.
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— Dear Abby is an American advice column founded in 1956 by Pauline Phillips under the pen name "Abigail Van Buren" and carried on today by her daughter, Jeanne Phillips, who now owns the legal rights t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dear_Abby
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dear_Abby
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— Jeanne Phillips ( JEE-nee; born 1942), also known as Abigail Van Buren, is an American advice columnist who has written for the advice column Dear Abby since 2000. She was born in Minneapolis to Paul…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Phillips
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Phillips
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— Pauline Esther Phillips (née Friedman; July 4, 1918 – January 16, 2013), also known as Abigail Van Buren, was an American advice columnist and radio show host who began the well-known Dear Abby newsp…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Phillips
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Phillips
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“Dear Abby... was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips”
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Although the 'Evidence for claim 1' section says no evidence was found, the evidence provided for claim 0 contains Wikipedia entries that explicitly state the column was founded in 1956 by Pauline Phillips.
“Contact Dear Abby at http://www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069”
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The provided web search results for this claim are generic definitions of the word 'official' and do not provide any confirmation or contradiction regarding the website or P.O. Box address for Dear Abby.
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— An official is someone who holds an office (function or mandate, regardless of whether it carries an actual working space with it) in an organization or government and participates in the exercise of …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official
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— The meaning of OFFICIAL is one who holds or is invested with an office : officer. How to use official in a sentence.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/official
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/official
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— 1. a person appointed or elected to an office or charged with certain duties. 2. of or pertaining to an office or position of duty, trust, or authority: official powers. 3. appointed, authorized, or a…
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/official
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/official
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