They're so complicated, man. I said for a decade on this show that it's weird when you

have these things because there's always a gravitational pull, no matter how dysfunctional

no matter how toxic the relationship is, there's always a gravitational pull towards your

family, right? So you always want to give it a chance time and time again. And for those

of us that have gone through it over and over and over again, you always have hope, but

this is going to be the time where things really click, right? So we get this email and

she wants to reconnect with her brother. And she thinks she's ready to find him right now

after an assrangement. If you got something going on in your life and you want to share it with

us, hit us up at the birch show.com and most got the email. Hi, birch show. I love you guys and

listen to your podcast every morning. I have a situation that I would love to ask for your help

in doing a background check for some background. My brother and I grew up with very strict parents.

We were under a lot of pressure and would get shamed in front of all our relatives when we

would do something wrong. Fast forward to university days. My brother secretly dropped out of school

while pretending to go and came clean for four years later. Four years later? That's impressive.

You could keep it a secret that long. Did you have something like this in your past also?

What happened? It was just a semester. I started with the full class list and then as

weeks went by, I dropped a class here and I dropped a class there and I dropped a class here and

before I knew it, I had no classes. And how long was it before you told your parents? Pretty much

the end of the semester. That's when I took another semester off. And then I ultimately went back.

I took the scenic route to graduate. Took me five years, but I didn't. I just had to do a little

soul search in. And by that, that was at TGI Fridays, making money so I could go on spring break.

Oh, that's where your soul was. So it's two semesters. Your parents didn't know that you weren't

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