"agony column" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2005, Tim Lindsey, Chinese Indonesians: Remembering, Distorting, Forgetting, page 165",
          "text": "Underlying the discussion of values in the magazine's \"agony\" columns is a theme of changing values, and we see a society aware of the difference between traditional and modern values and beginning to move away — albeit to a small degree — from traditional attitudes and behaviour.",
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          "ref": "1881, Alice Clay, editor, The Agony Column of the \"Times\" 1800-1870, page vi",
          "text": "There is little doubt that lovers separated by unfortunate circumstances, or by angry parents, as well as bachelors meditating matrimony, have found in the \"Agony Column\" a safe means of secret correspondence.",
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        "A column of a newspaper which contains advertisements relating to lost relatives and friends and other personal matters."
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        "(chiefly UK) A column of a newspaper which contains advertisements relating to lost relatives and friends and other personal matters."
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      "glosses": [
        "A column written by an agony aunt, giving advice on readers' personal problems."
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "advice column"
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "2005, Tim Lindsey, Chinese Indonesians: Remembering, Distorting, Forgetting, page 165",
          "text": "Underlying the discussion of values in the magazine's \"agony\" columns is a theme of changing values, and we see a society aware of the difference between traditional and modern values and beginning to move away — albeit to a small degree — from traditional attitudes and behaviour.",
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