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serious xm triumph 111., welcome to the program.

Hi, Dr. Laura, how are you?

Good, what can I do for you?

Well, I just, first of all, I just had a lovely experience with, I'm guessing Dan, or someone on your staff who was wonderful, and he gave me the opportunity to possibly use the squirt gun as a solution but I'm hoping maybe you have a better a better thing to tell me and I

I promise I'm going to try and not be one of those annoying callers that always talks over you that

tries me enough as a listener so I'm going to try and not do that. So I

frequently listen to you I actually discovered you when I was in college and you had

your show I used to watch you late at night and I frequently listen to when I take my dog for a walk which I'm just about to do and a couple of callers ago I think it was Jane was talking about her mother kind of fighting with her sister and I've been

wanting to call you but that kind of really employed me to actually dial the phone number.

So I'm calling me today because I am married. I have been married for 10 years about to be 11 and we've been together 18.

My husband's mother frequently, she is widowed and she has a very

aggressive sister which would be my husband's godmother.

They, my husband and she had a falling out

because his godmother has a special needs child

and she is nearing retirement and she was kind of

trying to push this special needs child onto my husband's mother. So he kind of objected to that. She retired from the

teaching profession. She has a background in special education and there's quite a

distance like she, the Godmothermother lives in New York City area

she lives in the Syracuse area and he wanted his mom to have the opportunity to

enjoy retirement without having the burden of taking care of this, what would be her

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