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Hi Dr. Laura. I wanted to address some comments you made yesterday. It's just a reinforcement of two

points you continuously make. But before I do that first, thank you for your wisdom and your

consistency in providing common sense, fact-based counsel. I really appreciate that about you.

But yesterday really resonated with me because you were speaking to a caller about

getting the emotion out. If you can't think without falling back on emotion, then how could you be

an astronaut? How could you be a surgeon? How could you do any number of things if you have to fall

back on your motion? I'm almost 30-year combat veteran of the US Army. And that just resonated with me.

Resonated with me because I get it said in the military, we're trained to make decisions based on

fact. But I would tell people that anybody for the most part can learn to do that if they make it a

point of thinking of the fact and not just getting emotional. And it takes time. I wasn't

this emotional about decision making in my 30s and my 20s, but it takes time. And the other thing

I wanted to really reinforce that you constantly reiterate to people is that you simply must

know someone before you enter into marriage. You must. There is no marriage out there that doesn't

have its time of difficulty. And my husband and I, we could have been a statistic. He was

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