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Advice columns are newspaper or magazine features where readers submit questions about personal problems—relationships, etiquette, career dilemmas—and a columnist responds with guidance.
The format dates to the early twentieth century and has migrated online.
She wrote to an advice column about her difficult mother-in-law.
The columnist is often called an advice columnist or agony aunt (British).
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