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Hi Dr. Laura, how are you? Good. What can I help you with? Okay Dr. Laura, I'm a new listener.

Today is actually my first day of a listen to you and I am very fond of you already.

Wow, thank you. I am a person that believes we do need people like you to just tell us like it is.

You know, without the aggressive or nasty, and I don't think that you do it. So I just wanted to

commend you for that and it made me call you today with my situation. Thank you. Well, go ahead.

What can I help with? So I've had friends of mine for probably 25, 30 years from church youth group.

And so I started last year to start a nonprofit to assist men with mental health and homelessness.

I didn't get what I thought I would get from friends far as assistant and

acknowledgement of something that I was doing. And so it made me feel as if I needed to

re-aggress my friends. I'm doing that. I have not been friends with them for possibly two years.

I'm almost now. And I just wanted to know if I'm trying to take the inclusion or am I making the right decision.

What makes you think you might not be making the right decision?

I just think I'm reminiscent of just memories of fun that I had with them and how I could

constantly think about them and things that we did together. But other than that, it comes along

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