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Remembering The Editor Who Brought Sex To "Seventeen" And Predicted Millennials Decades Ago Dec 27th 2012, 10:55 A former nun turned Seventeen editor-in-chief, Midge Turk Richardson filled the pages of the magazine with discussion of topics like sex and anorexia. She died last week at 82. Midge Turk Richardson was the editor of "Seventeen" from 1975 to 1993. Midge Turk Richardson (right) Source: anniewatt.com Her family tells The New York Times she (pictured, right) died last week at her home in New York City. Midge Turk Richardson didn't follow the path of most teen magazine editors: before the eighteen years she spent editing Seventeen, she spent eighteen years as a nun. Seventeen has typically erred on the conservative of teen magazines, but Richardson made a point to bring touchy subjects to its pages. She told The New York Times in 1987: "I think the thing we find running through everything, as I guess it has for the 43 years we have been in business, is that the teen-ager thinks of Seventeen as her friend. If we run an article on teen suicide or abortion, we will get as many as 10,000 or 12,000 letters in response.'' View Entire List › Media files: enhanced-buzz-17339-1356558291-5.jpg (image/jpeg) enhanced-buzz-21828-1356559830-7.jpg (image/jpeg) enhanced-buzz-17300-1356558262-6.jpg (image/jpeg) enhanced-buzz-21876-1356558931-1.jpg (image/jpeg)

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