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</title><link>http://www.metropulse.com/news/2012/aug/08/shortchanger-multi-generational-advice-tipping-dil/?partner=RSS</link><description>At last! An advice column that’s 100 percent East Tennessee, so you can guess who wrote in (we’ll tactfully change a few details). And it’s twice the advice for the price of one. Each letter gets a response from “Jacki,” a 20-something shoe-loving Jersey gal with a University of Tennessee English degree, and “Jill,” who is a good 20 years older (oh, we hate that term “middle aged”) and has been dishing out advice to soccer and swim teams, hapless co-workers, and fellow writers and moms for decades.
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