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Emily Yoffe
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 15
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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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Sometimes people have a wild past because they have an essentially wild nature, and that's how they plan to go through life. Sometimes such people settle into happy monogamy, and can be content there because they never have to wonder, What did I miss?
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As far as types preferring other types, people of the same type can understand each others' perspective very well, but also drive each other crazy because they see their flaws magnified.
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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.
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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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If you look at books that describe the 16 personality types, you can see how different they are from each other.
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If you think a caregiver has an active substance abuse problem, that person should never be entrusted with your child.
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When you expand the definition of marriage beyond one man and one woman, society can expect other consenting adults in other configurations to say that their choices deserve recognition.
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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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I have this wonderful capacity just to walk away from my mistakes and not dwell on them.
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My inbox [showed me] how much pain there is in the world. I appreciated hearing from people, but it was hard to know I couldn't do anything.
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Interfering, judgmental, and disrespectful mothers-in-law are common complaints.
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Love is not shown by giving your toddler a car. It's better demonstrated by clapping as she bangs on pots or singing to her while she plays with her cheap little bath toys in the tub.
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Once an affair is over, the cheaters need to agree not to see each other anymore in order to reestablish trust with their spouses.
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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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Аs I've mentioned many times, sitting through graduation ceremonies is one of life's drearier milestones.
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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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Unless you work at the Republican National Committee or some other conservatively affiliated organization, people's personal political preferences should not be a criterion for employment or comfort in the workplace.
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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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