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I'm 11. Carol, welcome to the program. I got Laura. Hi, what can I do for you?

Hi, first I want to say to you that I've been listening to you for a very long time now. My dad listened to you for years and I love you.

Thank you. You put a smile on my face all the time.

Well, thank you.

Thank you. I literally some of the things you say and I'm not even sure what you're going to say to me today.

Do you want my history first or do you want my question first?

I have been clean for 25 years this year for you.

I did time. I was not the best parent.

My kids didn't go into the system. They went to my parents, which were like my parents are like the leave it to the beavers. They're perfect and they did everything to help my kids.

I went away for a while. My oldest was 13 when I came home in 2000.

I went through a stage where I did extra because I wanted to make up for not being there with my kids.

I was a little bit older than I was.

But in the last 23 years this year, I'm a business owner. I am nearly the perfect and you're probably going to say nobody's perfect.

But I do, my life is completely different. And people that know me today would be like you would. That's how they see me.

She has put me through hell and back literally in the last 23 years.

Her drug abuse on a side note, their father was also a user and did prison time, long prison time.

And just a very bad influence on my kids' lives. They hate him. But they tolerate him.

My question for you today with that little bit of history is I am a giver. I do for everybody.

I'm 54 and I'm tired and I'm done. But I don't know how to stop.

My oldest daughter now, she has three children. She is doing fantastic. She's been drug-free for like six years.

She works very hard but she hasn't had like, I'm a, I give and I do and I'm a very hard worker, super hard worker.

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