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Al, welcome to the program.

Okay, thank you, Dr. Lar. I always appreciate your rational advice.

So here's my situation.

It's very simple.

I'm just about your age.

I'm 76.

And I am a gay male in a relationship for 40 years with my partner.

And I have a lovely niece who has four kids. and I'm close to all of them. And the last,

the youngest girl, she was 14. And she texted my partner and they talked. And she texted my partner, say, and she's bisexual.

And it was okay to tell me,

but she doesn't want anybody else in the family to know.

And I have a conflict.

I mean, I feel like, you know, I know my niece, my mother,

and, you know, I feel like I should tells her or her grandmother, my sister-law.

And first of all, there is no father.

I'm kind of like...

How, sir, how old is this young woman?

How old is this young woman?

14.

Is she acting out sexually with males and females?

Is she actually acting out?

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