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Dec 2021
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Started From The Bottom Now We're Here

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a 29 year old married woman who’s married to a 44 year old man. When I met him, I was 24 and I fell in love with him because I was so ready to move out of my mom’s house. I moved in with him and a few months later, he proposed to me. Then we hit rock bottom and he lost the house. For three months, we had to live with my mother and I was in hell all over again..............................

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