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Speaker 1: Family Secrets is a production of I Heart Radio. Danny's

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Speaker 1: Listening is a bonus series brought to you by Family

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Speaker 1: Secrets High Family Secrets Family. It's Danny. I've been listening

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Speaker 1: hard in all sorts of ways as we're putting together

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Speaker 1: a truly stellar sixth season of Family Secrets. I'm listening

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Speaker 1: to my extraordinary guests who have navigated the secrets that

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Speaker 1: have been kept from them, the secrets they've kept from others,

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Speaker 1: and the secrets they've kept from themselves. Secrets, it seems,

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Speaker 1: are everywhere. People tell them to me at dinners, at parties,

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Speaker 1: they send me handwritten letters, or drop me messages on

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Speaker 1: Facebook or Instagram. Well, secrets have been always a part

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Speaker 1: of human nature throughout history. I think that in these

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Speaker 1: last few years where at a real moment of reckoning

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Speaker 1: Why Well, in part because it's so much harder to

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Speaker 1: keep a secret the Internet, for instance, cell phones, text chains,

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Speaker 1: and of course DNA testing. Someone recently asked me if

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Speaker 1: I think all of this unavoidable transparency is a good thing,

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Speaker 1: and I really do, which doesn't mean it isn't painful

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Speaker 1: or rocky or complicated to have your world up ended

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Speaker 1: by all you didn't know. But the thing is, it's

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Speaker 1: the truth. And if there's anything I've learned in the

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Speaker 1: last few years from my guests and from my own story,

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Speaker 1: it's that the truth is liberating. It really does set

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Speaker 1: us free. I'm also listening to the messages you all

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Speaker 1: are leaving on our private call in line dedicated to

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Speaker 1: family secret stories. I hope you'll keep them coming. Please

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Speaker 1: don't be shy. I can't even begin to tell you

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Speaker 1: how much sharing these stories means to all the folks listening,

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Speaker 1: millions of you. You may think of it as an

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Speaker 1: act of confession, but it's really an act of generosity.

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Speaker 1: I look forward to hearing from you and responding to

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Speaker 1: more of your stories. Just call one eight eight eight

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Speaker 1: Secret zero. That's one eight secret and the number zero.

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Speaker 1: You can also follow me on my favorite social media platform,

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Speaker 1: Instagram at Danny writer. That's d A n I Writer. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: I will keep listening