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Mark, welcome to the program. Hi Dr. Laura, I'm a long time listener.

One year's old Mary, I have two kids, daughter of the 16 and a son that's 13.

My question today is that I was raised by grandparents. I had five children and

the oldest daughter got pregnant and 15 took her out of school and she had the baby and the baby

was me. So all going up until I was about 10 or 11, I called my grandparents, they raised me

as their own child and they kind of told the whole community that I was their child and not

their daughter's child, that makes sense. So my question is when I was about 14, my parents just,

it was never really spoke of other than sometimes cousins when we be playing or something,

if they get anxious or something would say, you know, that's not really your mom and dad,

that's your grandma grandpa and your real mom is your sister. And I run to my, who I thought

my parents would say, is that true? And they said, no, no, no, they're just teasing you.

Anyways, when I was about 14 years old, they came to me, pulled me out of school and said,

Mark, I think you know, but you're really, we're really your grandparents, but we want to officially

adopt you. So I said, oh, okay. So they said, it's already set up. We're going to go to the

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