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One of my dear friends who was an escort for 10 yrs said she had all the clients she could handle when she worked near pastor's conventions. But she said this about her pastoral clients: --They were often rude --They often balked at her rates --often violent --Judgmental

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The Patriarchy is truly dying. It really is. It is more noticeable in some circles. In others, it is still glowing with dying embers. Here is where I as a therapist see it all the time. With men under 40.

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Listen up both men and women. Study after study has proven: Women are healthier and happier if they don't get married. Men are healthier and happier if they do get married. The old trope is a lie. Men need a wife. Women don't need a husband.

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This attitude that says “Hey, I tried being nice and you still won’t date me” doesn’t work any more. 6. Women are humans, equal in all ways to men. They work harder at being humans than most men. From now on, they expect men to work just as hard at being decent humans.

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Treating someone nice is the bare minimum we should do for every human. 3. Women never have to have sex with you. Ever. Not if you buy them dinner. Not if you date them for two months and not yell at them. Not even if you marry them. You have no right to sex. Ever.

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Those days have been over for a decade. Here is the new reality. 1. Women do not owe men anything. Nothing. 2. Even if you’re nice to them, shower them with kindness, buy them gifts, speak softly and tenderly, they do not have to do what you want.

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4. Women are allowed to remain single and never have men in their lives. 5. Women can sniff out someone who is being nice to them to get something they want. They won’t put up with disingenuous friendships with men any longer.

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She is actually now retiring from 30 yrs of missionary work in Thailand. She occasionally is asked to speak at Pastor's conferences. She has some very harsh words for them. She is also the one who got me studying the connection between repressed sexuality and sexual assault.

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They are whining and scratching their heads to figure out why women won’t date them, have sex with them, or marry them. In social media meetings, they claim it is unfair. Their fathers, older brothers, uncles, grandfathers didn’t have to do much and women did their bidding.

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6 years

Would appreciate your prayers. I had a heart attack last night.

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10 months

This is the way:

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Here’s a goodie from 2019:

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Re: Matt Chandler *indiscretion*. I have counseled well over 100 pastors who were disciplined or fired for sexual reasons. Here is an absolute rule I found: Whatever they admit to is the bare minimum of what has happened. They only admit to EXACTLY what they were caught doing.

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When divorce happens, men are way more likely to get married than women. Women initiate divorce more than men, even though it takes a greater toll on them. Why am I saying this? Because men...hear me...women don't want you. You have tortured them for 1000s of years.

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Now that the tipping point has been reached, women realize they aren't going to be sorry not having a man in their lives. Men, do you want to change this? Then change who you are. Learn to be emotionally intelligent. Learn to take care of yourself. Be a giver not a taker.

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It took me 60 years in life to stop over-functioning in order to feel safe with those around me. But one harsh lesson when you recover from over-functioning in relationships. NEVER assume that the under-functioners in your life will pick up the slack. They do not.

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@irishgirl1155 Hippies. Not even close.

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Be content not to have sex if a woman is not enthusiastic and agreeable. Don't make a scene if she doesn't agree with you. In short, treat women with respect, empathy, and dignity. They might just notice you. Might. Might not.

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@NathanTheGr8an In my study on this issue, I think the bigger factor is the sexual repression so many christians live in. And with the pressures of ministry, this sexual repression has some very unhealthy expressions.

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@TheRainbowCrowe That's totally what happened and is happening. Well said.

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@axwilliams When it comes to consensual sex, "deserving of" and "entitled to" amount to the same thing. There is no difference. No one deserves sex. No one.

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Yesterday was my daughter’s 40th birthday. For those who are newly following me, she is finishing up a 6.5 year federal sentence. Yesterday also marked the 4 month mark until she will be released. She told us the other inmates did some amazing things for her birthday. Yay!

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Yesterday, an old church friend was telling me how upset she was at the beating death of Tyre Nichols by the police in Memphis. She was deeply disturbed by this. I asked if she knew him. “Mike, you know him too. He was in our Youth Group ten years ago.” She’s right. Oh god.

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There has always been a way to reduce abortions: 1. Universal, accurate, no-shame sex education. 2. Universal access to birth control. 3. Sex positive mindset by society as a whole. 4. More effective drug intervention programs for teens. We would have very few abortions.

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Too many counseling sessions convince me I can’t say this enough: If you want to touch someone else’s body, you must have consent. EVEN IF YOU’RE MARRIED. A wedding license is not a negation of consent. And if you throw a Bible verse at me, I’ll show my contempt for Patriarchy.

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1 year

Listen please. The mentally ill need some compassion. The distressed need calm people to be around them and maybe provide a smile or two. Or to be left alone if they want. THEY DO NOT NEED THE POLICE! STOP IT! That’s how they get killed.

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“Never date; your marriage will be amazing” “Never have sex; you’ll be so good at it when you get married.” “Bypass your problems by spouting religious slogans and never feel any real pain.” “Others will shepherd and control you and you’ll be ok.” Really? We believed all that?

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Yep. Matt Walsh, Sean Hannity, Ben Shapiro, Alex Jones, Laura Ingraham, etc. They will be remembered for furious farting. Nothing more.

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I was so thankful last night. My son in prison finally agreed to read "The Body Keeps the Score". He finished it after a month of digesting it. "Dad, I have very serious PTSD. I know it now. I need help!" I have waited so long to hear him come to that conclusion. I cried.

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As a pastor of 36 years, I was entertained by people considering how to approach disposing of bodies after death. Many were worried that the god couldn't reconstruct them after cremation. So I would mention being eaten by worms, bears, sharks, etc. I sucked at pastoring.

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Vasectomy vs. tubal ligation. Why is this even a debatable discussion in our day and age? There is no question. Vasectomies are a piece of cake compared to the invasiveness and danger of a TL. And don’t throw the exceptions at me. Get snipped men. It’s the right thing.

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5 years

I was a pastor for close to 39 years. I have been a therapist for 37 years. I have sat alone with hundreds and hundreds of women. Not once has a woman hit on me. Not once has a woman accused me of inappropriate behavior. I don’t know where all these supposed false accusers are.

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And to those who have DM'd me today to say some variation of "Well, isn't it possible that in this case he may have only done what he said he did?" Sure it's possible. But I have never ONCE seen this to be true. So the possibility is very slim. His salary is tied to purity!

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On the way out the door at the museum yesterday, we overheard a woman tell a curator about a man outside who was talking loudly to himself and she was worried he would hurt someone. She asked him to call the police. We went out there and just stood around him and smiled.

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A gentle reminder that there is NO evidence that having sex with someone bonds you to them in any way. That is a belief based on any number of cultural and religious influences. Believe it if you want to. But it is has no evidentiary basis to it. What if you didn't believe it?

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5 years

Rape is about violence, not sex. If someone were to hit you with a spade, you wouldn’t call it gardening.

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It might surprise most people who never attended church that huge numbers of christians do not believe in a Rapture. They think the idea is stupid.

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3 years

I started my theological career as a bible translator. I still sight-translate portions of OT and NT. I love working with ancient languages. I have been annoyed for years that one Greek word has formed the basis of centuries of sex negativity. One word. That's it.

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Under-functioners adore you partly because you carry the emotional/physical/sexual/social load for them. If you stop doing that, they will see YOU as the problem, not themselves. I used to think “If I function in a healthy way and stay in my lane, they will eventually clue in.”

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6 years

I came through the surgery successfully thank you so much

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Almost 30 years ago, I had victims reveal to me that they had been sexually assaulted by a youth evangelist in our denomination. I spent the next three years finding more victims: 32 in all. I presented the findings to our denom leadership. They refused to act.

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Most likely schizophrenic. Most likely homeless. If they fucking called the police, I knew what would probably happen. And no outcome would be good. So when the curator came out the door, I told him I was a therapist and he shouldn’t worry. He went back in. The man was fine.

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4 years

@RexChapman I’m not spending $200 on a tree service that will cut this sucker in stages. No sir. I’m going to spend $35,000 to build a new roof instead.

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Nope. It doesn’t happen quickly, or even at all. You may start to function in a healthy way and decide that friends, family, boss, co-workers are no longer the people you can afford to have in your life. Sometimes, there is a price to pay for recovery from trauma.

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I have had a number of clients who had been sex trafficked. With no exceptions, they were all trafficked by family members, not kidnapped. Though that does happen, it is much more likely to be a family member that traffics.

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My ADHD peeps. Revenge Bedtime Procrastination--that is, the resentment one feels at spending all day doing things you dislike doing and staying up late to do the things you want to do--is actually a Protector Part.

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In my many years of dealing with abusive pastors and their churches, I always make three recommendations: 1. Fire the pastor and/or call police 2. Comfort the victim and make all amends to them 3. Inform everyone at every level of their crime so they can’t go to another church.

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25 years from now, when evangelical churches wonder why there is no one attending between the ages of 45 and 65, point them back to their support of DJT and how that nonsense lost them a generation of people who saw through their hypocrisy.

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"Although we can't always choose what happens to us, we can always choose how to respond," This is just plain not true. Trauma changes everything. The Fight/Flight/Freeze responses are autonomic. Which means you can’t always choose how to act when someone traumatizes you.

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For Coming Out day, I will do it for my child (with their permission). My son went to prison four years ago. During that time, they came out to us as Trans. I have a new daughter. She applied for and was approved for a women's prison just this month. She says the women...

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Justice may be blind, but she’s not deaf.

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My wife and I have decided we don’t want children. We’ll be telling them tonight.

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...are so nice to her, helping her getting used to being a woman. And she said that the men in her previous facility were very accepting and curious about her transition experience. All in all, prisoners are treating her with respect. How about you "free" society? Will you?

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A friendly Charismatic Prophet Reminder: In Nov/2019, Cindy Jacobs called together all the best-known prophets in the charismatic world. They spent days together “hearing the Lord”. Yet: 1. Not one of them predicted a pandemic 2. All of them predicted DJT’s second term

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More than one person has asked me when I'm going to write another article on why there is nothing spiritually or biblically wrong with premarital sex. Is that an article that would interest anyone?

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2 years

Here is your encouragement to raise a daughter that people are a little bit afraid of.

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Watch this theme very very very very carefully. It’s a tactic by groups that seek to control through deception and manipulation: If they say “We need to protect our children” …this is code for “we will pass any law we need to so as to vilify any group we want to”.

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One of my friends was an alcoholic most of her life. She started at age 12 and was literally drunk every day until age 30. In conversation one day, I told her: “You found a way to survive the chaos and disorder of your household. Well done”. She was completely surprised.

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Personal History Moment: My original vocation was Bible translator. Before I got my psychology degree, I got a degree in ancient Hebrew and Greek. I can still sight-translate any NT passage and many OT passages. And I’m here to tell you, there is no clear reading of any verse.

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5 years

I’m curious. If you’re a victim of assault, abuse, or trauma, what are some reactions from people that have made it harder for you?

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2 years

Listen. You do not own your children. No deity “gave” them to you. You conceived them, and once they reached consciousness, they became their own people. You have no right to bend their wills and break their spirits. They are not STRONG-WILLED. THEY’RE HUMAN.

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My friends, I will only be able to say this once. My son’s prison has chosen not to give him antibiotics. The more we advocate for him, the more they make it hard for him. It is with sorrow we have decided not to say anything more. I appreciate it if you move on with us.

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@jluce50 Yep...no connection /snark

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Note to new or young therapists. With many clients you will reach a stage where they say more frequently, “I don’t have a lot to talk about today”. Your internal dialogue will lead you to conclude they are coming to the end of the therapy process. Resist that. Here’s why:

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I'm not saying this because I'm a therapist. Churches, if one of your leaders physically, sexually, or emotionally assaults a member, you need to pay for the victim's therapy. And for the costs associated with recovering from this ordeal. It's a necessary part of healing.

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Let’s end the “Five Love Languages” bullshit. They are so incredible misleading. There are so many more. A few—just a few—examples. 1. Sex. No, it is not the same as touch as anyone who doesn’t want sex can tell you. OR Sex Partners who don’t like touch. 2. Respect. Yes it is.

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@judee_tan Yes

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I’ve shared this before, but it bears repeating. The greatest words ever spoken to me. When I told my mother as an 8-yr-old that the babysitter had molested me, she said, “Mike, I believe you. I will take care of this”. And she did.

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Though this is not always true, often they have just reached the stage where all the things they had hoped to process have now been worked through. And you are at the precipice of the issues they had hoped never to delve into. They don’t even know either.

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@kswallowtarot Yes, and that's the key point. It's fine for people to have needs. But it's up to each individual to work out emotionally and relationally acceptable ways to adapt to others to find those needs met.

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Thank you for all the kind words, prayers, and love you poured out on my wife and me. A few minutes ago, my wife's mother passed away. They determined she did have the virus. Be in prayer for my father-in-law who is devastated for this loss and because we cannot be with him.

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5 years

Two Calvinists meet on a sidewalk. Bob: “How are you doing John?” John: “Good. But not inherently.”

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One of the teens I did therapy with many years ago had tried to commit suicide twice. We did a lot of work and it paid off. She just sent me a note saying that today is her 40th birthday and I gave her the best gift anyone could give her. This is why I do therapy.

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8 months

2023 Rapture Alert. If you’re reading this: YOU WERE NOT CHOSEN. How does that feel? Time to figure out how to live here, on this planet, with your fellow humans, in a respectful way. Instead of entertaining this wet dream of escaping while everyone else is destroyed.

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2 years

Be aware that Betty White used to be Betty Grey until she fought the Balrog and defeated him.

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3 years

This is a very specific Title for Jesus: Lord Handbreaded Chicken Waffle.

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Accusations from a Narcissist are actually confessions.

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I had a friend telling me about the “extraordinary” money they are making with this program they’re running. I said “So, it’s MLM?” They assured me it absolutely wasn’t. After 20 more minutes of explanation, I said, “It’s an MLM scheme”. Them: “Yes”. Christians and MLM...why?

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Good news. Through the help of a wonderful person on Twitter, my son got his psych meds in the jail today. This Twitter community is beyond amazing. I am so thankful for all of you.

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For those who have asked...our daughter was released from Federal Prison. We have re-situated her, she is getting used to her new country and living situation and seems to have matured a lot. She's making amends and is putting good decisions down. Thank you for your support.

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6 years

Update for y’all. I am having 5 stents put in this morning. Keep praying.

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5 years

As I have told 2 people this morning, I realized something over 40 years as both a pastor and a psychologist: Spiritual problems and psychological problems are often not the same thing and are not necessarily connected. Therefore spiritual solutions will not treat disorders.

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Is there anyone else who eagerly await's the announcement of Pantone's Color of the Year? Just me? I get a new fountain pen color based on the COTY and I am excited about it. Small things get me going.

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Here is something quite profound and mind-blowing: A different version of you exists in the minds of the people who know you. Not even close to the version of you that you know.

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They say you can now have gatherings of up to 8 people without any issues. I don’t know 8 people without any issues.

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This is a niche tweet for some dear people. Some LGBTQ individuals are married to cis-het partners. For some of them, it had everything to do with not knowing who they were, or being afraid to explore who they were. Can we stop shaming them for staying married to each other?

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Rob Bell in his book "Love Wins" poses a formidable question: Since God in the Bible says we are to forgive our enemies, why doesn't God do the same thing by eliminating Hell for God's enemies? I have posed this to many Xians. Their answers always start: "It's complicated."

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I was a bible teacher/translator for over 36 years. I have deliberately left behind the church. But I still LOVE to teach. On this account, I will often teach on trauma, IFS and EMDR therapies. I also like to do Sex educating. I will never stop teaching. It is what I do.

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My pastor friends distrust me because I’m also a “secular” psychologist. My “secular” psychologist colleagues distrust me because I’m also an ordained minister. This weird dissociation between Sacred and Secular is destroying people. Regardless of who started it, please stop!

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Sorry, you’re not Pro-Life if you advocate sacrificing the elderly, the handicapped, the people with heart and lung problems and the immunocompromised for the sake of the economy.

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So several christian groups have had exposes done in recent years. —Catholic priests —Hillsong —Christian camps —Bill Gothard and the Duggars Etc. What group needs to have a documentary series next? I nominate Dirty Doug and the Moscow cult.

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7 years

@SacramentoKings Do you realize you spelled everyone's name wrong except Cousins?

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@carolinamom011 I have told her that

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