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    Posted on March 5th, 2010

    Written by Judy

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    He Married a Person Totally Unlike My Mother!

    Dear Judy,
    I am 31. My mother died 4 years ago at age 60, and it came as a surprise even though she’d had health problems including breast cancer. We thought that was over. It wasn’t.
    A year ago, just 3 years after my mother’s death, my father remarried, and I am really upset. Not because he [...]

  • Advice

    Posted on November 17th, 2009

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    Why Should I Help My Stepmother?

    Dear Judy,
    Many years ago my father left almost his entire estate to his second wife. I was in my late 20’s when he informed me he was going to do this, my sister 2 years older. So we weren’t expecting a lot of money, even though my father was wealthy.
    And in fact, like he promised, the [...]

  • Advice

    Posted on September 17th, 2008

    Written by Judy

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    Dissing Our Daughter

    Dear Judy,
    Our daughter died of breast cancer a year after giving birth (they diagnosed her when she was in her third month of pregnancy, and she refused chemotherapy or radiation, for obvious reasons). In fact she was determined to have the child, who turned out to be a little girl, come what may.
    And it came. She died [...]

  • Advice

    Posted on August 27th, 2008

    Written by Judy

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    The Younger Wife

    Dear Judy,
    Our father is dying, and it’s getting difficult to see him. The problem? The woman he married after our mother died.
    She is two decades younger than him, so I’m sure you get the picture. No, we didn’t approve and I guess it showed. He married this younger woman three months after our mother [...]