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Oh dear song, won't you please?

Share some better sweet days with me.

I check my bedbugs every day. Oh, and this sugar, using my way.

Hi Steve. Hello, Cheryl. Actually, weirdly upbeat greeting. I'm always very happy to see you,

but the subject today, not so upbeat. It's a heavy one. Yeah. We're going to talk today

about, we've called this episode in the shadow of a damaged parent, and it is really, we get

such a multitude of letters that really when you boil it down has to do with how do you

live in the shadow of a parent who was in one way or another damaged. And to what extent

do we as kids, we're all kids of some set of parents inherit some of that damage? Is it

inflicted upon us consciously and unconsciously and can we and how do we find our way out

of that shadow? And there are so many nuances to that shadow. I know for myself having

a damaged father, a question I was always asking myself, even though he wasn't in my life

after about the age of six was, well, I become like him. Am I in some ways vulnerable to

some of the patterns that he carried out in his life that I think he repeated from his

father? And you know, the answer to that is no, but it took me some years to understand

that. But I think that gets a lot more complicated when you grow up, spend your entire childhood

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