"Linda Carroll" (born 1944) is an American author and a marriage and family therapist. Carroll received national attention in 1993 when one of her patients, the fugitive Katherine Ann Power, turned herself into authorities after spending twenty-three years eluding police. Carroll is best known professionally as a Relationship counseling/couple's therapist, and as an author of three books, the latest being [http://books.google.com/books?id=vm5NBAAAQBAJ Love Cycles: The Five Essential Stages of Lasting Love] (New World Library, 2014).

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She's dealing with a serious drug addiction and trying to get through it. It's not my unwillingness to reconnect, but she's not ready. Maybe when she's on the road to recovery.

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I'm not responding to those things. What is there to respond to? She said, 'Well, my mother made me live in a chicken shed. And we lived in tepees on a commune.' . . . I don't want to enter into (a) 'Jerry Springer' celebrity thing. I just find it degrading.

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She wouldn't see me. She kept me waiting for hours in a room with other people who were waiting for her. Somebody said, 'She's watching television.' I thought, this is like my old life with her, and I left. And I went back and I said to my husband, 'I'm not gonna ever go anywhere to try to help her out again, no matter what, unless she's straight and she calls and she asks.

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I love my daughter very much. And she did have a terrible childhood - because it felt that way to her. I feel reluctant to try to diagnose her, even if some might call her bipolar. Yeah, she lied about her childhood and her experience of me.

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A lot of our marketing has been word of mouth, but with the city of Lansing, we're going to have to broaden that.

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