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Erica, welcome to the program. Thank you so much, Dr. Laura. I appreciate you taking my phone call.

Thank you. How can I help? Very honored to you be speaking to you.

I'm a 19-year stay-at-home mom because of you.

I was raised listening to you, so I appreciate you.

I know you don't, I'm going to get right to the cliff notes of my call for you.

My brother and I are eight years apart.

We were raised in a very dysfunctional home with just my mom.

My dad died when we were little.

I was three.

My brother was 11.

We have zero family. No aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, no one. So it was just the three of us growing up. Like I said, my mom was very, very, very dysfunctional and very screaming and yelling all the time, throwing things. My brother has always been my dad, to say the least. He's

been my everything. He's been my everything since we were little kids. Fast forward. He's a

phenomenal human being. But that's kind of where my question comes for you. He married a girl 30, we'll just say 30 years ago

because it's about that. So she's been in my life, my whole life. I fell in love with her brother

at a young age and they had a very large family. They had all these things.

He was a great guy.

I got married to him.

So brother and sister both married to each other.

I was married 22 years.

Found out that my ex-husband not only liked me, but he liked everybody else. So I divorced him and all during my divorce my brother and

my sister-in-law were very kind and didn't get involved they didn't really say anything um

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