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Speaker 1: I said, I got laughed at today and this is

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Speaker 1: why there's something wrong. And my mother's reaction was so interesting.

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Speaker 1: It was like her face was very plank.

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Speaker 2: That's Alison Landa speaking about the realization that changed her life.

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Speaker 1: And I was, of course in tears. It was something

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Speaker 1: that I never expected would have happened to me. And

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Speaker 1: then when I realized this is not just happening to me,

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Speaker 1: this is who and what I am. I needed her

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Speaker 1: to help me, and I started to realize in that moment,

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Speaker 1: help is not afoot. This is probably not going to happen.

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Speaker 2: I'm Danny Shapiro and welcome to the new season of

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Speaker 2: Family Secrets. Sometimes it's hard to believe we're entering our

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Speaker 2: eighth season, and yet we're constantly discovering new secrets of them.

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Speaker 2: The variety of them continues to be astonishing. I can't

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Speaker 2: wait to share ten incredible stories with you, stories of tenacity, resilience,

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Speaker 2: and the profoundly necessary excavation of long held family secrets.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to season eight, which drops on Thursday, May fourth.

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Speaker 2: Here's Isaac Fitzgerald reflecting on New Year's Eve nineteen ninety

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Speaker 2: nine and the promise of a new millennium.

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Speaker 3: We were excited. Yeah, clean slate, and we couldn't wait

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Speaker 3: for it because why not restart look at all the

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Speaker 3: things that were going wrong. One of the movies that

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Speaker 3: were very drawn to, which was that same kind of

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Speaker 3: time period, was Py Club. What we've really loved about

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Speaker 3: that film was.

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Speaker 4: It ends with this wipeing of the deck, this idea

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Speaker 4: that maybe society could restart. And we thought that would

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Speaker 4: be tremendous.

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Speaker 3: Because when you're on the bottom, that's what you're always

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Speaker 3: hoping for, a reshuffler.

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Speaker 4: You want to see if you can get delta better hand.

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Speaker 4: This head sucks.

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Speaker 2: And Carmen Rita Wang, who spent much of her life

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Speaker 2: wondering about her very identity.

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Speaker 5: Something was gnawing at me that I couldn't put my

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Speaker 5: finger on that. I just felt somehow that there was

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Speaker 5: a piece missing. I was looking for where Poppy lived

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Speaker 5: in me. It wasn't that I was looking for being Chinese.

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Speaker 5: The culture was there, the ethnicity was there. I'm talking

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Speaker 5: about like the human being of Peter, which was what

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Speaker 5: his name was, Peter Wang. Where was he in me?

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Speaker 5: His attitude, his personality, his temper, his jokes, like all

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Speaker 5: these sort of things, Where was it and I couldn't

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Speaker 5: find it. And that's where kind of the seed was

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Speaker 5: planted that something was up.

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Speaker 2: I hope you'll join me and my extraordinary guests for

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Speaker 2: this new season of Family Secrets, coming Thursday, May fourth,

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Speaker 2: from iHeartMedia and available wherever you get your podcasts.