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But same applies to any professionals who may appear on the Light the Fight podcast. Hey there. Welcome back to Light the Fight.

This is the DMs.

And we have a question that has come in.

And I want to be really cautious as I share this because there's some unique details about this particular

question.

And as always, you guys, when you send in your messages, we don't know who, we don't know you.

And we're not going to share your whole social security number, just the last four

digits. We're not stocking you. Everything's fine. But there were some things about this particular

question that I think, even though we all have different situations, I think that there's a lot of

things that are very relatable about this question. And some of these things we've talked about before, but I'm going to set

this up a little bit. Teenage kid, 14 years old. He's the youngest in his family. He's pulling away from...

Let's give the other detail before.

First of all, he's adopted.

He's adopted.

Okay.

He's of African-American descent.

In an all-white family.

Adopted into an all-Caucasian family.

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