The Run-Around

The letter seemed unusual and properly titillating, so Lovelorn Columnist Abigail Van Buren ran it routinely in her syndicated column. Dear Abby:

I came across a strongbox full of letters in the trunk of our car. The letters were from a married woman who is in love with my husband. They are so full of mush and love talk it would nauseate you. Should I send the letters to HER husband and let him handle it in his own way?

BOILING OVER

Abby penned a reply advising Boiling Over not to send the letters to the other woman's husband but to fight it out with her own, and promptly forgot all about it. Then the letters came pouring in. Last week Abby ran a sampling: Dear Abby:

You ran a letter from a lady who found a box of letters in the trunk of her husband's car. I pray every night that she will take your advice, because I am that woman. If this woman who found my letters will destroy the letters without telling my husband. I promise never to see her husband again.

ASKING FOR ANOTHER CHANCE Dear Abby:

Please ask that woman who found the box of love letters in her husband's car how much she will take for them. I am sure this concerns me. WILLING TO BUY Dear Abby:

If that wife who found the love letters to her husband will contact me. I can straighten out a few things for her. I also have a lot of letters from HER husband.

NO HOME WRECKER Dear Abby:

Please inform that lady who found my letters to her husband that if she turns them over to my husband it won't do her any good because I already have confessed everything, and he has forgiven me.

FORGIVEN

In all, Abby got some 25 letters from frantic women, each confessing that she was the writer of the mash notes. They came from Houston, Detroit, Boston, Los Angeles, even Honolulu. The original letter was written by a woman who lived in the San Francisco area.

In New York last week to promote her new book of collected letters-and-answers, Abby commented cheerily: "There are an awful lot of guilty consciences running around, dear."

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