Dear Abby letters on love duty and life lessons
A reader asks to reprint a long Dear Abby letter about visiting aging parents and saying I love you while there is time. Beloved father dies at 72 and the family recalls his appeal for timely affection. Other notes share etiquette theater coat mishap and puzzles.
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