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en-wikipedia-org-6302		Advice column - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	2465	257	72	Advice columns were not simply informational; from the days of The Athenian Mercury, they contributed to a sense of community in which readers not only learned from others' issues vicariously, but engaged with each other by offering their own answers to questions already published or by challenging advice given by the columnist.[2] David Gudelunas, in his book Confidential to America, said "It was through reading columns such as "Dorothy Dix" and "Ann Landers" that Americans learned what the other half was up to—no matter what half they themselves represented."[1] It gave them the opportunity to share information about themselves and their lives that, as many said in their letters, they were "too embarrassed" to tell people they knew.[1] The advice column, with its views into the lives of others, became a tool in ventures as disparate as children's counseling[12] and teaching English as a second language.[13]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6302.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6302.txt