A Thank You Years In The Making

Read on the Tuesday, May 19th radio program.

Dear Dr. Laura, I’ve been meaning to write this for a long time, and I finally feel like I’m at a point in my life where I can truly say it: thank you. Throughout my life, I have followed your counsel and reaped the benefits; I have also gone against it and experienced the consequences just as clearly.

I’ve had your number, your intro music, and your voice inflections memorized since I was about seven, because my mom always had your show playing. It used to annoy me, but even through my adolescent attitude, the values and morals you boldly proclaimed seeped in and became guiding principles as I grew up—alongside the hard work my parents put into instilling those same values. I now appreciate my mom for “annoying” me all those years. At 24, I can clearly see how much of it stuck.

I was recently married to a fantastic man (I’m still amazed at how simple they really are—back rubs, good food, and sex! That’s it! A wonderful design, really), and we plan to start our family in the coming months. I hope to have the ugliest children to whom we can lovingly teach to “go do the right thing.”

Thank you for being a beacon of moral clarity that reinforced my family’s and church’s traditional views on the God-given roles of a husband and wife, especially in a world that often feels increasingly lazy, selfish, and even misguided. Thanks to my family, to you, and ultimately to God, I did not fall into what I see as the traps of destructive feminism, overvalued popularity, and empty promiscuity.

I can’t wait to annoy my children with that synthesized intro paired with, “Dr. Laura is ON … right now.”

Sincerely,
A lifelong listener,
Aulorah

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