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

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Speaker 1: Danny Shapiro, and this is family Secrets, the secrets that

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Speaker 1: are kept from us, the secrets we keep from others,

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Speaker 1: and the secrets we keep from ourselves. As I tore

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Speaker 1: the nation from my book Inheritance, I've heard from so

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Speaker 1: many about your own family secrets and realize that what

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Speaker 1: we are creating for each other on this podcast is

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Speaker 1: a community, a community for those who are looking for

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Speaker 1: a safe and supportive space to unburden themselves. To that end,

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Speaker 1: we've created a number for listeners to call in to

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Speaker 1: record stories to share here in this space. This week,

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Speaker 1: I'd like to share a few of those stories from

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Speaker 1: our community. Thanks for listening. I have lost most of

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Speaker 1: my family and on a whim, I sent my DNA

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Speaker 1: into ancestry and low and behold found out that I

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Speaker 1: have a cousin whose father was adopted. UM a very

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Speaker 1: very close relation where UM like first or second cousins.

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Speaker 1: I don't know the details and if we share a

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Speaker 1: great grandfather or a grandfather, but UM, we have really connected.

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Speaker 1: And losing all my family, it's been just a warful

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Speaker 1: experience to have someone come into my life that's family,

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Speaker 1: and I believed for him as well, because he's never

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Speaker 1: had a blood relative like this um that's appeared. So

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Speaker 1: we're actually planning a vacation. We met in person, and

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Speaker 1: we're planning a vacation and going to Louise this fall.

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Speaker 1: So it's from it's definitely worth it to step out

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Speaker 1: there and see what comes back. Thanks. Hi. This isn't

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Speaker 1: it because I love the healing that has come out

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Speaker 1: of it. So I have an aunt that um, my

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Speaker 1: family and I had gone to stay with for a

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Speaker 1: few summers after my parents got divorced, and and she

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Speaker 1: was always somebody who was super into everything had to

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Speaker 1: look perfect, everything had to be just right and done

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Speaker 1: in just the right way. A very strict person, but

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Speaker 1: a very kind hearted person obviously since she took us in,

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Speaker 1: but she was really hard to get along with a

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Speaker 1: lot of times. And another detail that goes with it

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Speaker 1: is that my family is Mormon or Latter Day Saint,

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Speaker 1: and so images are even that much more important to

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Speaker 1: them in a lot of ways, um, And and that

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Speaker 1: was very much apparent through her life and the way

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Speaker 1: that she treated us and her family and her children

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Speaker 1: in particular. Well, Um, it was really interesting because her

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Speaker 1: son UM was given a DNA pad us by his

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Speaker 1: in laws a few years ago and it turned out

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Speaker 1: that he had a half brother match that he had

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Speaker 1: never known about. And it turned out that this aunt,

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Speaker 1: who had such an obsession over perfection, UM had to

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Speaker 1: give up a baby for adoption when she was nineteen

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Speaker 1: years old, and so Um they finally got to find

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Speaker 1: out about that they all had a bigger brother. This

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Speaker 1: is the oldest brother out of six children in total

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Speaker 1: for for my aunt, and from what I understand, when

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Speaker 1: it came out, my aunt was very reluctant to talk

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Speaker 1: about it at first, but eventually, over a couple of

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Speaker 1: weeks UM, after my cousin had gotten the message that

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Speaker 1: he might have a brother in law, she finally decided

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Speaker 1: to open up. And it's been really awesome to see

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Speaker 1: because I didn't know that this had happened a few

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Speaker 1: years ago, but just from the outside looking at it,

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Speaker 1: I've definitely seen her soft in over the years and

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Speaker 1: being less judgmental and and less uptight about how things

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Speaker 1: looked in appearents and and it directly correlates with the

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Speaker 1: time when she was coming up to her immediate family

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Speaker 1: that she had a son that they've never told them about,

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Speaker 1: and the fact that they had all accepted and embraced

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Speaker 1: her still even though it wasn't a part of their religion,

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Speaker 1: they still loved her and they opened it up. And

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Speaker 1: and I just find that to be an amazing and

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Speaker 1: truly healing story. And and it tells about our time

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Speaker 1: nowadays that were so much more accepting about things that

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Speaker 1: could be perceived as mistakes or even are starting to

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Speaker 1: be redefined as not mistakes, but these things that happened,

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Speaker 1: And and I just love that. So thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for everything you've been sharing, and I hope that this

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Speaker 1: continues to help people heal. Goodbye. This podcast has been

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Speaker 1: extremely helpful to me as my family and I have

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Speaker 1: gone through finding out our own family secret this past

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Speaker 1: little while. Of finding out and we had a half

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Speaker 1: plaint that we were not aware of, and in listening

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Speaker 1: to other stories and other people's experiences of dealing with

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Speaker 1: their family secrets, that has been incredibly powerful and incredibly

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Speaker 1: wonderful and strengthening for me and for my family as

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Speaker 1: we're going through our own journey. If you'd like to

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