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Kaylee, welcome to the program. Hi Dr. Laura. Thanks for taking my call. Sure I had called you

months ago about my mom and trying to decide whether to break off contact with her because she's

an addict. And you told me this intertext and say, you know, I'm going to leave you be mom and I'm

going to go and live my life and that will shit about. And so I sent that text. I did blocker,

like you told me to. And I felt great. I felt good. I got called from some of my family,

but everything worked out and I just said, yeah, I'm just going to leave her be. And so I just

wanted to thank you for that because gave me such a relief because I listened to another caller

and you had said to her, I know this is going to like, you're going to say it's going to be kind of

harsh, but didn't that feel good, the relief, having a relief of not having to have that person

in your life. And I was like, I totally can relate with that. That is that relief of like,

I don't have that anxiety of seeing like a text or a family member calling.

And always the family member that calls you're like, this is never a good call when I see

the same thing going. And I don't have that. I felt so relief to not have that burden of being like,

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