Pauline Phillips, the woman who founded the Dear Abby column in the 1950s, has died, but that doesn't mean her advice doesn't continue into perpetuity. In fact, it's woven — sometimes obviously, sometimes imperceptibly — into the fabric of our cultural lives.
The Internet makes fast work of the anonymous. But in the case of Sugar, the popular, anonymous writer behind the The Rumpus' advice column "Dear Sugar," the coming-out was orchestrated on her own, at a party in San Francisco on Tuesday.
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