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Renee, welcome to the program.

Thank you, Dr. Laura.

I'm really nervous.

I'm sorry.

So I have a dilemma. Let'm sorry. So I have a dilemma. I, let's see. So my mom, so I was raised by my stepfather and my mom. My mom had me out of wedlock in a different country. My mom came to the States and left me with my grandparents so she could make a better life for me.

She left when I was two, and then she sent for me when I was seven.

During that time, I did see my biological father, and then my mom had promised my biological father that she would not bring me to the States to the United States until I was of age where I would be able to remember him, which was like, I believe it was like a teenager, but my mom obviously missed me.

And she happened because of the war breaking

out during that time, she sent for me and my father didn't know that I had left the country

until it was too late. So between the age of two to the age of seven, I didn't see my mother until I immigrated to the United States.

By the time I got to the United States, my mom was married to my stepfather,

and my stepfather was my father for me all these years.

I'm 53 years old now. And my stepfather was my father for me all these years. I'm 53 years old now.

And my father, which I call my, which is my stepfather, passed away three years ago.

So I always knew the story that, you know, that my father, my biologic father, you know, the story with their relationship,

it didn't work out, he did marry somebody else, he had another child bowel with his marriage,

and so I never had any kind of contact with my biological father.

But my mom would always remind me, you know, he really loved you, he took care of you,

and all these things, you know, and I was like, yeah, I know mom.

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