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[Sandra Pettitt]

Just wanted to say I am so happy that Nate has found love again. It's nice to here he has gone on with life after such a great loss.

God Bless
Sandra
Hamilton, Ontario
Canada

[Casey horn]

I am a 40 year old and I need a Mack over I watch your show when you do the Mack overs and wish I could be thst person that gets the Mack over I guess I need a change I work at walmart and would love to Mack my husband proud to be with me again I won't to look smoking hot can you help me

[Burt33Martina]

When you're in uncomfortable position and have no money to get out from that point, you will have to receive the loan. Just because it will aid you for sure. I take short term loan every single year and feel myself good because of that.

[Virginia Minnabarriet]

Hi Oprah,
I loved the show today. Oprah's favorite things. A question - the Volks Wagon Bugs - Will they have diesel engines? I hope so. I live in B.C. Canada and bought a new vehicle in May. I would have bought a Volks Wagon if I could find one with a diesel engine. In Europe most of the vehicles have diesel engines. With the price of gas now a days diesel goes farther and the engines last longer as well. In my opinion. Thank you, Virginia

[Vera Brown]

I am 80 years and if i'm lucky Jan 6 2011 iwill be 81 thank GOD. I'm also a lung canser surviver. i have been trying had to enter 12 days give-o-way, got the codes for all 12 days,but i can't find the code word. Another thing i am on oxygen 24/7 but i would like to look good to. SO i have a sugession, why not have a senior make over.

[sean]

hey i was just wondering if anyone remembers opersa favorte things 2010 when she gave away 25$ towards setting someone up with starting there own buisness.

[ChristyZ]

Hi Sean,

No, I'm sorry, I don't remember that one.

[Terri Murphy]

Oprah - Willow Smith was rude and arrogant to you
calling you Girl. Her parents must be so proud
of creating such a bratty child. I can just imagine Willow in a couple of years. That little girl need a whooping bad.

[Linda Buckle]

I just watched today's show and was especially interested in San Luis Obispo. I have a couple of comments to make: One of the factors that would make SLO a happy place would be the 76 degree weather over 300 days a year. I don't believe this was mentioned. Secondly, I lived in San Luis Obispo for one year, almost three years ago. There are several reasons that it was not the happiest place for me to live: There wasn't enough to do there when you are from Kansas City Missouri--there's not even a mall. When you're from the Mid West, $500,000 for a house that is under 1400 sq feet is too much money. We came back to KC and bought a great house for $370,000 with over 3,000 sq feet and lots of space. Houses are too close together in San Luis Obispo. In other words, I don't believe the report about SLO---too many variables were left out of the report. Thanks, Linda

[anita]

hey Oprah
I u are so good and U know what u hold your head up high because I saw the state ment on how this popular singer choose another day
big day time person to do her inter view and she just turned her back on U well u know what
don't worry baout because if she came on your show she would have to tell the truth about what happened to her and I feel she is pulling a star jones stunt. so don't be mad I am on your side and always will be U go oprah u r the best and always will be u don't have 25 yrs of tv expereience for nothing U worked so hard and u go and be proud of your self and hang in there because I am proud of u there will never be another oprah winfrey on nbc ever again so be proud of u and celebrate u ok .

[cathy swinford]

The Judd's on OWN is the best reality show ever. I hope that Oprah decides to bring them back for more seasons. Even if Wynonna and Naomi are not going through their "therapy" and are in different places in life, that this 6 part series that just ended, I vote to bring them back. They are great! There should be more reality shows on positive, mom/daughter relationships.

[Readandwrite]

Oprah Made Me Cry, Dammit
by Wina Sturgeon

Posted // 2011-05-25 -

It might have been a first for a Salt Lake TV newsroom. Several hundred KUTV2 viewers were given tickets for an advance showing of Oprah Winfrey's final show at the Clark Planetarium IMAX Theater at the Gateway, complete with goodies and raffle prizes.

While the freebies weren't quite to the level of Winfrey's famous vehicle giveaways, they were an excellent home-grown version of gifts for everyone--including a plush stuffed bear holding a $1,000 gift certificate from a local lasik surgery company, a cool aluminum desk-size picture frame, a coupon book containing stuff like 2-for-one theater tickets, and more.

But the star of the event was, of course, Oprah saying goodbye. It was a historic moment in television.

And though I gritted my teeth and fought it, I must confess that I cried. The show was something unique--not merely a retrospective, nor a hackneyed inspirational message, but Oprah herself grabbing everyone watching, deeply revealing herself, while revealing you to yourself at the same time. That sounds trite, but if you were there, watching that show on a huge movie screen, you realized why this little black girl born in a rural Mississippi town grew up to be larger than life, instead of "a maid or a teacher at a segregated school."

There were no other stars on the show, it was all Oprah, though she did introduce her first grade teacher, beloved because, in her words, as a child without much love in her life, that teacher was the first person to validate her. Then she said that's what all of us, every single human on the planet, is looking for: validation. Deep in our hearts, we want to know, "Do you see me?"

She added that even people who think it's all about money and fame, who get those things but still don't feel happy, often don't feel validated because deep inside, they don't feel worthy. And echoing Lady Gaga in "Born This Way," she said, "You are worthy. You are worthy of happiness just because you exist." That was when my tears overcame my will.

It sounds like she was preaching some kind of self confidence, but it wasn't at all like that. She wasn't preaching. She was sharing her deepest internal truths--and even that doesn't sum it up. She was communicating, telling us viewers, for example, that all life is energy--something that quantum physicists only discovered in modern times, though ancient philosophers discovered it millennia ago.

There were photos of Oprah throughout the years, making us laugh as she poked fun at some of her outfits and hairstyles. She made our hearts ache as she mentioned the sexual abuse she suffered when young, and presented a clip from a past show where 200 men stood in a group, each holding a picture of themselves as a child at the age they were first raped.

Oprah said, over and over again in many, many ways; that she was the one who was blessed to be able to do her show, that it was her calling, it was what she was put on earth to do, and how grateful she was to every one of her 25 years of viewers who allowed her to do it. But what she had to say on this final show was not just to her fans. It was a love letter from her to all of us, and to God as well. It was love that Oprah Winfrey wanted to help give the world, a quest that became her mission, so by showing us who all those others are inside--the politicians, drug addicts, writers, doctors, criminals, heroes, movie stars, victims, servicemen and women, wife beaters, CEOs, philosophers--that they are humans like us, and if we can just understand, love will follow.

She walked off her stage, and then we all walked out of the theater, to the lobby where top KUTV executives handed us teddy bears and goodie bags, and thanked us for being there. And when I walked outside, my heart was so full of love that I couldn't hold it all, and I just wanted to shout to everyone in the world, "I love you, I love you," and keep shouting it until finally, everyone heard.

Thank you, Oprah Winfrey. Godspeed.

Wina Sturgeon writes the Get Out column for City Weekly.