Speaker 1: Let me tell you what it's like to find out
Speaker 1: you were wrong, just plain wrong about who you are
Speaker 1: and where you come from. To look in the mirror
Speaker 1: one day and see a stranger staring back at you.
Speaker 1: That's what happened to me. My name is Danny Shapiro,
Speaker 1: and this is family secrets, Secrets that are kept from us,
Speaker 1: secrets we keep from others, and the secrets we keep
Speaker 1: from ourselves. A family secret was kept from me for
Speaker 1: my entire life, the family secret which I stumbled upon
Speaker 1: purely by accident, at the age of fifty four, that
Speaker 1: my dad wasn't my dad. Since then, I've walked the
Speaker 1: halls of my home looking at the photos and portraits
Speaker 1: that hang on the walls. My father is a boy.
Speaker 1: My grandmother and grandfather, great aunts and uncles, cousins from
Speaker 1: the old country. My father's family was big un posterity
Speaker 1: from as far back as I can remember. I was
Speaker 1: told their stories, and their stories became my stories. Now
Speaker 1: I stop and stare at each one of these people, who,
Speaker 1: it turns out, are not my ancestors. The woman in
Speaker 1: a high collared velvet blouse, her hair parted severely in
Speaker 1: the center, the man in the ponce Ney wearing a suit,
Speaker 1: his hand resting on a book, and further back, solemn
Speaker 1: people in a dusty Polish village. Who are you to me?
Speaker 1: I asked them, who are you to me? And in
Speaker 1: the middle of the night I sometimes asked myself this question.
Speaker 1: Who am I? Who am I? Now that I know
Speaker 1: the truth? Welcome to Family Secrets, my new podcast. Each
Speaker 1: week I delve deep into a family secret with a
Speaker 1: very special guest. Here's an interesting fact. Not one of
Speaker 1: the people I invited on the show to have a
Speaker 1: very public conversation about their family secret said no, not one.
Speaker 1: Some of my guests have written books or made films
Speaker 1: about their discoveries. Some have never spoken of it before
Speaker 1: to anyone outside their most intimate inner circle. But everyone
Speaker 1: who has lived a portion of their lives in the
Speaker 1: dark understands that secrets are deadly. They hold an invisible
Speaker 1: power over us and shape our lives without our even
Speaker 1: knowing it. But when the veil of secrecy drops, we
Speaker 1: gain a new understanding, a new perspective on who we
Speaker 1: really are and what has formed us. Family Secrets will
Speaker 1: launch on February fourteenth. Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts
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