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The sadness from reading letters that you know you can't help because it's a person who's in extremis and their problems are not soluble by an advice column.

Emily Yoffe

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Emily Yoffe
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 15
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I marvel with distress that in 2015 we are fighting the vaccination wars. It is deeply disturbing that people who should be able to weigh discredited so-called studies instead believe garbage, and so are willing to endanger their children and others. I sincerely hope this madness burns itself out before a lot more people get hurt.
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Polygamy has an ancient history and is legal in many parts of the world. I find the rules of polygamy to be damaging and it's potentially dangerous to young girls and terrible for excess boys. But polyamory is supposed to be a more equal arrangement among agreeing adults.
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If you didn't want to be written about, you shouldn't have been born to a writer!
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When my daughter left for college, I lost my in-house consultant to youth culture. There's just stuff I don't get. And there's something kind of pathetic about someone my age trying to pretend she gets it, so I don't try to pretend.
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An alcoholic 47-year-old woman with teenagers who thinks a guy in his mid-20s is a good prospect as a partner definitely has some judgment and character flaws.
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There are some people who do not have a wild past because being wild would make them terribly self-conscious and uncomfortable.
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The only solution seems to be for government to toughen the vaccination laws and close the loopholes that allow people to opt out for philosophical and so-called religious reasons. The laws need to make clear: no shot, no school.
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When people are really drunk they have a propensity to harm themselves and others - they fall off buildings, they drive into other cars.
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The biggest problem is that people want to tell the whole story, and they write letters that are way longer than anything I could possibly run.
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I counseled a 75-year-old married, bi-sexual man who was having a gay affair and was not having sex with his wife to continue his secret life because that seemed like the kindest thing to do. But a young woman embarking on married life, hoping to start a family with her husband, needs to at least know he's already living a double life.
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It is a mystery why people think they need to act as their friends' dietitian, nonetheless it's common.
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I have this wonderful capacity just to walk away from my mistakes and not dwell on them.
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Keep in mind that when you tell people to come see you, they might not get the idea about when it's time to leave.
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You may think you're married to a woman, but she's really an overgrown child.
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The world's full of victims and the world's full of terrible perpetrators and I want them identified and caught.
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Each week I am forced to revise my original opinion that Facebook is a great innovation for keeping people in touch, to believing that it is merely a canvas for members to act out strange, unresolved conflicts and desires.
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I know this is awkward, but when you laugh after almost everything you say, it ends up undermining you.
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