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Kristi, welcome to the program. Hi Dr. Laura. It's so nice to talk to you. Thank you for taking my call.

I've been a longtime listener and I'm a first time caller and I want to share with you a story

of how listening to you talk to women about their marriages and their husbands has helped me in my

marriage. Yes, please. I'm going to give some backstory that I think is important to this story.

I am the youngest of four kids and when I was a freshman in high school, my mother was diagnosed

with breast cancer. And the reason I say I make the point of being the youngest of four kids is

because at that point it was just me, my mom, and my dad in the house. My siblings were up and out

and starting careers and having children of their own. So it really was just the three of us that were

sort of in the trenches. So to speak dealing with the next six years which was

surgeries and chemo and radiation and remission and relapse and metastasis.

And so my dad was very focused on taking care of my mom and trying to get her the best treatment

possible. And as a result, I was on my own a lot. I was kind of a good kid that I guess

maybe they thought I didn't really need my parents and would get along okay without their guidance.

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