Sometimes You Just Have To Take Life as It Comes

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my call of the day, brought to you by Vibrients Super C serum, the skincare product I use twice a day.
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0:13.9	Remember, you can hear my radio program daily on Sirius XM Triumph and connect with me 24-7 at Dr. Laura.com.
0:23.4	Kathy, welcome to the program.
0:25.7	Hi, Dr. Laura.
0:26.8	I have never called you before, but I have listened to you off and on for years, and I appreciate
0:31.2	Well, welcome.
0:32.9	Thank you.
0:33.5	Welcome.
0:34.3	What's up?
0:34.6	Mine is a slightly different situation.
0:40.2	About 30 years ago, my late husband and I became foster parents, and we were foster
0:45.8	to adopt.
0:47.1	And, you know, you know with a foster parent that a child comes to you, there's no, certainly
0:53.9	no guarantee that they'll stay with you.
0:56.0	And we had a few, you know, that were transient and that was, that was, we're at peace with that, you know.
1:02.0	We had a little boy, we did four adoptions, and we had a little boy who came to us when he was two days old,
1:09.0	and he had four older biological siblings
1:13.4	for whom no relatives, no biological relatives had ever come forward.
1:19.2	So they brought him to us at two days old
1:23.3	with a letter where we could state our intent to adopt it,
1:29.7	which of course we signed.
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