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Ruth Westheimer

The sex therapist, 90, on living with history, her advice for millennials and the new documentary about her life, Ask Dr. Ruth

You were born in Germany and lived in Switzerland, Jerusalem and Paris before moving to the U.S. What was it like to revisit some of these places from your past while making this Hulu documentary? I was very careful where I took the documentary people. For example, I went to Switzerland to talk about how grateful I was to be there during World War

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