Please Please Me, Boyfriend

Q Dear Miss Abigail: How can I get my boyfriend to hug or kiss me? He’s really sweet and cute. Please answer this! Signed, Brittany A Dear Brittany: Sounds like you need to take action, my dear! I have a feeling you don’t want to lean over yourself and just smooch your shy sweetie, so […]

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Partygoing

The gals and I just happened to attend a wickedly fun party last weekend. So to celebrate, here is a bit of advice from Ellen Peck’s long-titled How to Get a Boy and What to Do With Him When You Get Him. The topic: flirting at parties. Not that we would know anything about that. 1969: […]

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Lures Men Can’t Resist

“Her style is eminently readable, and she writes simply and sincerely, utterly without cheap sentimentality,” the flap copy says of Dorothy Dix, author of How to Win and Hold a Husband. This book includes such informative chapters as “What a Man Looks For in a Wife,” “It Pays to Be a Mystery,” and “The Cost of […]

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The Eyelashes Have It

Q Dear Miss Abigail: Is there a certain way to look at a guy to make him want you more than any other girl? Signed, Mary A Dear Mary: I bet you never thought that eyelashes were so important when it came to making googly eyes. But they are, at least according to Eileen Ford, […]

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Keep on Flirting

Q Dear Miss Abigail: I recently discovered that I have been flirting with far more girls than I had realized. Please, I need to know where the line is between flirting and a witty conversation. Signed, Wondering in Wisconsin A Dear Wondering: Just curious ~ how exactly did you come to this realization? I’m picturing […]

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