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Have you ever kept a journal?
Dear Abby Asked by Dear Abby
9/5/2025

Have you ever kept a journal?

62%
Yes WINNER

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38%
No

3

62%
Yes

5 Comments
Desiree Williams
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Desiree Williams

Journaling helps mine remember overtime

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Kimberly Jarvis
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Kimberly Jarvis

I did when I was a teenager. Then my mother found it, read it, and yelled at me about what I wrote. So I stopped keeping a journal after that.

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Roberta Mckay
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Roberta Mckay

Help me remember thing from the past as well as the present.

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Terri Compton
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Terri Compton

I started journaling when my son was killed on a motorcycle. I have 9 steno books of those horrible early days of grief. Almost 20 years later, I have never opened them to read my thoughts.

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rover6rover
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rover6rover

Particularly travel journals of family trips.

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38%
No

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Tina Bouthillier
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Tina Bouthillier

Last time was at 16 (decades ago), fell into wrong hands, never again!

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Lisa Dammarell
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Lisa Dammarell

Always getting into the wrong hands

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Lisa Gray
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Lisa Gray

I kept a diary when I was a child, is all. Was embarrassed when I read it years later, so would never keep a journal as an adult.

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Have you ever experienced love at first sight?
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1 year left

Have you ever experienced love at first sight?

Yes

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No

0

Yes

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No

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Do you arise at the same time every day?
Dear Abby Asked by Dear Abby
12 months left

Do you arise at the same time every day?

Yes

2

No

5

Yes

2 Comments
Mrs. Fincham
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Mrs. Fincham

I just feel like arising at the same time helps me stay on schedule and feel like I am seizing the day. Also, I can NEVER sleep in when I try anyway.

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Bob Pickett
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Bob Pickett

I have tried to get up later but cannot stay up in the evening. I got up at the same time for many years while working

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No

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Bonnie Fitzgerald
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Bonnie Fitzgerald

I'm retired, and unless I have a specific appointment, I get up whenever I wake up, and that depends on how late I stayed up the night before

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rover6rover
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rover6rover

Approximately, but as retirees we're delightfully flexible most all the time.

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Robert Davidson
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Robert Davidson

If I go to bed later, I will wake up later.

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D May
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D May

It is said that you should always wake up at the same time. Never has worked for me.

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