• Advice

    Posted on October 29th, 2008

    Written by Judy

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    After Tongue Cancer — Do I Make My Nieces Rich?

    Dear Judy,
    I’d really appreciate it if you wouldn’t use my real name or even where I’m from at the bottom of this email. I’m a 60-year-old woman who’s just been through surgery for tongue cancer. I think I’m okay and the surgeon got whatever he needed to get (mainly part of my tongue). I have difficulty speaking as a [...]

  • Advice

    Posted on October 3rd, 2008

    Written by Judy

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    Do I Have to Tell the Truth About My Wife Who Killed Herself?

    Dear Judy,
    Although everyone in the family — even our family physician — went to great lengths to describe my wife’s death last year as an accident, I know deep down that it probably wasn’t. She always suffered from low-grade depression, and she refused to see a therapist. Also: after dropping off our two young kids [...]

  • Advice

    Posted on September 30th, 2008

    Written by Judy

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    Death at Birth: Bad Joke, Bad Afterlife

    Dear Judy,
    My mother died in childbirth — mine. That was 43 years ago. My father remarried; his second wife was a wonderful mother to me. I was lucky. Their two sons — my half-brothers — are terrific.
    Unfortunately at some point, maybe during a seriously bad patch of my rough adolescence, someone cracked a joke [...]