Speaker 1: I think that my mom was relying very much on
Speaker 1: the fact that I was a child, that I wasn't
Speaker 1: going to remember much, that she could basically just shepherd
Speaker 1: me or shove me in front of whomever she was
Speaker 1: interacting with and say, well, that's Paul Skyhorse and that's
Speaker 1: who your father is, and that I would just accept
Speaker 1: it at face value. That's Brando's Skyhorse, no longer a child,
Speaker 1: no longer being led into believing the stories spun by
Speaker 1: his mother.
Speaker 2: So my memory is like, Oh, at last, here is
Speaker 2: my father, here's someone I'm connected with. It was that
Speaker 2: sense of relief. It was that sense of like, oh,
Speaker 2: finally this question has been answered for me, when.
Speaker 1: The harsh reality of it is that my search was
Speaker 1: just beginning.
Speaker 3: I'm Danny Shapiro and welcome to the twelfth season of
Speaker 3: Family Secrets. That's a lot of secrets, a lot of stories,
Speaker 3: and a lot of invaluable support from you. Are Family Secrets, Family.
Speaker 3: I can't wait to share ten powerful new episodes with you,
Speaker 3: stories of tangled up identities, concealed truths, and the way
Speaker 3: in which family secrets almost always need to be told,
Speaker 3: shared held. Welcome to season twelve, which drops on Thursday
Speaker 3: May twenty ninth. Here's Aaron Mcreynold's reliving the most difficult
Speaker 3: of discoveries.
Speaker 4: We go in and it's dark and it's quiet and
Speaker 4: it's cool. We're by the ocean. Nothing unusual. The place
Speaker 4: seems neat, but I'm not really looking around. I just
Speaker 4: see that the bedroom door is closed. So one bedroom condo,
Speaker 4: very small, and I go to open the door and
Speaker 4: nothing is just a big rumpled bed in the middle
Speaker 4: of the room, and so I go over to open
Speaker 4: the blinds. I was like, finally I can see something,
Speaker 4: and start looking around and I think maybe I'll get
Speaker 4: a clue as to where they went. There's a defel
Speaker 4: bag on the bed, and I go to move the
Speaker 4: defel bag to see what's inside of it.
Speaker 3: And Julie fingersh on an unwelcome sensation felt toward her daughter.
Speaker 5: As a parent, you're allowed to feel a lot of things,
Speaker 5: but you're definitely not allowed to feel jealous.
Speaker 4: Of your own kid. This is not something we talk about.
Speaker 5: We can say jokingly, I want to come back as
Speaker 5: my kid in my next life.
Speaker 4: Okay, that's one thing, but you're not really allowed.
Speaker 5: To say I am jealous of my child, and that
Speaker 5: is what I was feeling and that when I knew
Speaker 5: something was very wrong.
Speaker 3: I hope you'll join me and my extraordinary guests for
Speaker 3: this new season of Family Secrets, starting May twenty ninth,
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