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Rachel Wildavsky
Apr 18, 2024
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Original column: Dear Prudence, April 9 2024

My take: The advice column I’m critiquing today is one of the saddest I can remember.

It features a letter-writer who writes for magazines. She tells Dear Prudence that on a recent first date, a man told her he’d already googled her and read a bunch of her published work, including “several personal essays” on …

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