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Hi, and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz Show on IHartRadio.

My special guest today for the short segment where I answer listener questions is my friend and co-host of normally Mary Catherine Ham.

Hi, Mary Catherine.

Hello. So nice to have you on. Thank you for

having me. So we're going to do a quick question answer for a listener who wrote in. I like this

question because it really does hit on some issues that I talk about a lot. The question is,

Hi, Carol, I've been following you since the alarming news days. By the way, side note, alarming news was my old blog. It's how I got into

the media world. And so this person has been following me for many, many years, like 20. Thank you

so much for that. I'm 61 years old and my wife died of cancer 10 years ago.

We have three grown children. I only started dating again about a year ago and I'm seeing a woman in

her early 40s. I wasn't looking for someone so much younger, but we met through mutual friends and hit it off.

The problem is she wants children of her own and I feel finished with that

part of my life. Sometimes I think I should just have a child with her, but the idea of a 30-year

age gap with my other children feels ridiculous. I don't want to lose her, but also don't want to

waste her time. I feel like I need a woman's advice and I trust you. Well, thank you for that.

I don't know. What do you think about that, Mary, Catherine? Yeah. Here's what I think is that

congrats, by the way, for finding love again. And that's exciting. And given that it sounds like

a healthy relationship, I think you guys need to have a very

frank discussion about this because time is of the essence.

Time to take it.

Yeah.

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