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Amy, welcome to the program.

Dr. Laura, you have impacted my life off and on for a lot of years.

Thank you.

My situation is, I've been divorced quite a while, I think, since about 2016.

Try not to think about all these dates and things, but I was married to a man for 11 years then,

and I'm 60 now, and he's plus that by a few years.

And I found out actually through a church prayer chain list that he's dying.

And I asked the person who put him on there if he was still with his current wife. I really have not kept track of him since our divorce. And he's not. So he's alone.

My ex-husband is alone and dying. And do I reach out to him? To do what? I don't know. I don't know. Amy, when you ask a question,

you have to have in your mind what you mean. Do you want to go take care of him? First of all,

you know nothing, you know nothing about his circumstance. You said he's all alone. He doesn't

have a spouse. That doesn't mean he's alone.

Somebody's taking care of him.

He's somewhere, and some people are taking care of him.

So unless you want to bring him into your house and help him, I need to know what you want to do.

Do you want to go say goodbye and say something nice and just be compassionate? That's always a

nice thing to do. Doesn't forgive him for anything. It doesn't mean anything about the past. It just

means that you two have a history. He's dying and you're compassionate. So to go visit one time, twice, would be a very compassionate, decent thing to do.

So if that's what you have in your mind, I support that.

If it's something else you have in your mind, then you have to find out if it's needed.

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