Dear Abby letters address tough questions for families
A reader asks how to explain sexuality and disease to a reading child and wonders if the column encourages such topics. Abby affirms printing these letters helps parents teach life truths, then a writer asks about heirloom keepsakes and whether daughters should buy them. Abby advises gifting heirlooms to daughters and keeping family items within the clan.
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Abby
Randolph Mass
Dad
Florida
Children Logic Outshines Adults In Classroom Anecdotes
A columnist argues that children often solve problems with simple logic and recounts scenes from schools. Examples include a cafeteria switch from fish sticks after a third grade insight and a story of a girl with leg braces finding acceptance among peers.
Collins Houser Wedding in Madison Mass
Miss Colleen Marie Collins of Madison Wisconsin married Donald R Houser of Madison in a December 30 ceremony at 1st Patrick church officiated by Rev Joseph J Slepicka. A VFW hall dinner followed.
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Waukon
Colleen Marie Collins
Madison
Wis
Donald R. Houser
E. E. Houser
River Falls
Joseph J. Slepicka
1St. Patrick's Catholic Church
Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall
Collins
William Zoll
Clarke College
Orchard Ridge
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Florence National Library Reopens After 14 Months Restoration
Florence’s National Library resumed public access after extensive work to recover a million damaged volumes from the Arno floods. A team of students scholars craftsmen and monks known as the mud angels led the effort with 309 000 books and manuscripts restored and an estimated 10 000 to 20 000 lost.
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Florence
Italy
Arno
Salvatore Accardo
Mrs Visser T'Hooft Dies After Long Illness
Geneva AP reports Henrietta Visser T'Hooft wife of former World Council of Churches secretary-general Dr Willem A Visser T'Hooft died at 68 after a long illness. She passed away at home on Saturday.
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Geneva
Henrietta Visser T'Hooft
World Council of Churches
Willem A Visser T’hooft
Netherlands
Visser T’hooft
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