DEAR ABBY: I have been reading your column for many years. When I see a letter of interest, I read it aloud to a couple of co-workers during the lunch break.
A couple of months ago, one of my co-workers stated that your columns are "asked and answered" by you. In other words, he suggested that the letters are fabricated. Is there any way you could help me convince him that they aren't? -- TIM IN LONG BEACH
DEAR TIM: Probably not. However, I am not guilty as charged. The truth is, I could never make up anything as interesting -- and sometimes bizarre -- as the letters and e-mails that cross my desk every week. And that's the gospel truth.