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Speaker 1: Secrets High Family Secrets Family. It's Danny. I've been listening
Speaker 1: hard in all sorts of ways as we're putting together
Speaker 1: a truly stellar sixth season of Family Secrets. I'm listening
Speaker 1: to my extraordinary guests who have navigated the secrets that
Speaker 1: have been kept from them, the secrets they've kept from others,
Speaker 1: and the secrets they've kept from themselves. Secrets, it seems,
Speaker 1: are everywhere. People tell them to me at dinners, at parties,
Speaker 1: they send me handwritten letters, or drop me messages on
Speaker 1: Facebook or Instagram. Well, secrets have been always a part
Speaker 1: of human nature throughout history. I think that in these
Speaker 1: last few years where at a real moment of reckoning
Speaker 1: Why Well, in part because it's so much harder to
Speaker 1: keep a secret the Internet, for instance, cell phones, text chains,
Speaker 1: and of course DNA testing. Someone recently asked me if
Speaker 1: I think all of this unavoidable transparency is a good thing,
Speaker 1: and I really do, which doesn't mean it isn't painful
Speaker 1: or rocky or complicated to have your world up ended
Speaker 1: by all you didn't know. But the thing is, it's
Speaker 1: the truth. And if there's anything I've learned in the
Speaker 1: last few years from my guests and from my own story,
Speaker 1: it's that the truth is liberating. It really does set
Speaker 1: us free. I'm also listening to the messages you all
Speaker 1: are leaving on our private call in line dedicated to
Speaker 1: family secret stories. I hope you'll keep them coming. Please
Speaker 1: don't be shy. I can't even begin to tell you
Speaker 1: how much sharing these stories means to all the folks listening,
Speaker 1: millions of you. You may think of it as an
Speaker 1: act of confession, but it's really an act of generosity.
Speaker 1: I look forward to hearing from you and responding to
Speaker 1: more of your stories. Just call one eight eight eight
Speaker 1: Secret zero. That's one eight secret and the number zero.
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Speaker 1: I will keep listening