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Charlie, welcome to the program. Hi Dr. Laura, how are you? Good. Okay, I think your show is fantastic

and I think your commitment to what you do is fantastic. I just want to say that first off.

Thank you. It's quite of everything that you've had thrown out. You just keep going and I know

you helped a lot of people and I'm one of them and a lot of friends of mine that you've helped too.

I'm very cool to hear that. Thank you.

Yeah. What can I do for you today? I don't know where my parents fit my life anymore.

I have a little dilemma about that moving forward. I had a life of physical abuse with my mom

up until age of 13 years old. What else? Finally able to stand up for myself and stop it and

it's way to talk to my mom. Where was your dad through all of this violence? Yeah, there, there,

there and aware and complicit and pass it.

I'm real proud of the day that I stopped my own physical abuse when I was 13 years old.

I'm in my 40s now. But what did you do? Get her back? What did you do to stop?

I told her I would. I told her I would like she was, she was punching me and slapping me about

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