Hello? Hey, how's it going?

Great, how are you?

I am well, I am well, thank you.

Sorry for the slightly rough voice, but I'm all ears.

Why don't you tell me what's going on and how I can best help?

Okay, um, thanks so much for taking my call.

You're welcome.

Your work has been so valued by my life and well-being and I haven't spoken to you in maybe like a decade so this is definitely a

callback that's been waiting to happen.

Well you sound and look even younger so that's good.

Thank you. I actually am doing so much better. I was back then.

So I'm going to be 35 next month and I have wanted to have a family and to have children since I was in my 20s and I have

failed to do that thus far.

I have a string of failed relationships. I don't know how valuable it will be to discuss those.

Only you are in possession of whether that's valuable or not, so I'll leave it to your discretion. I'm certainly happy to hear.

Okay, well I had, I dated my high school sweetheart for eight years from 17 until about 25 or 26 and in the middle of that relationship, he started experimenting with drugs.

And then it just got like really out of hand and he ended up being institutionalized

a bunch of times and court ordered to take lithium injections and it just was really bad and then about two years after we broke up he committed suicide.

So obviously you know I can't take the blame for that but it certainly makes me question myself because he and I had what I thought was such a great love, but I certainly

was not the priority in his life. And then... So sorry to hear about all of that. That's just a

monstrous set of events to go through. Yeah it was definitely something that I don't think I'll ever fully get over, but I've done my best to sort of move on.

Well, hang, are we just going to step over the eight-year crater or are we going to circle back at all?

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