Bonus: Listener Stories, Episode 10

Published Nov 21, 2019, 6:40 PM

In this bonus episode we hear from listeners in the Family Secrets community. To share your secret, call 1-888-SECRET-0.

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Family Secrets is a production of I Heart Radio. I'm Danny Shapiro, and this is family Secrets, the secrets that are kept from us, the secrets we keep from others, and the secrets we keep from ourselves. I've heard from so many about your own family secrets and realize that what we are creating for each other on this podcast is a community, a community for those who are looking for a safe and supportive space to unburden themselves. To that end, we've created a number for listeners to call in to record stories to share here in this space. This week, I'd like to share a few of those stories from our community. Thanks for listening. So my family secret is my grandma really never knew of her father died when she was six years old. Chilling ever had one photo, not knew that rates of him. So fast forward forty years and her mother died. She found her father's first specificate and it turns out he was twenty five years older than she originally thought. So she always kind of wondered, well, what he did in the twenty five years, and she never thought she would give the answer to the kind of secret. So one day, um, I was just messing around on dot com and I found a photo of her father when that my grandmother had never seen, so I just kept clicking and it turns out her father had a whole mother family. He had a son and a daughter thurty years ago in my grandma, my great uncle, and it's done my grandma. Um, she had nieces and nephews that were actually older than her. And yeah, but the craziest thing is is that her half brother actually ended up an able Quoque when three streets away from her when they both grew up in New Jersey, so she could have seen on the street or at the grocery store. But it's just kind of crazy how cool incidences happened like that. And I'm just happy I was able to bring that closure to my grandmother. And I really loved the podcast and what you were doing with it, and keep up the great work. Hi. I am a new listener of the Family Secrets podcast and I love it. And then his um sort of compelled me to call and share my secret. That's a family secret, but um, it's sort of something I feel is my own now as I've gotten older. Um, when I was young, I like a lot of people who have called in found out through pretty obvious reasons that my father UM was not my biological father. And I actually found out on my own when I was about twelve, yeah, UM, reading my baby book and realizing the last names were very obviously people who I didn't know and weren't my grandparents that I had grown up going UM. I told my parents that I found out, and to be quite honest, through my youth and growing up, we never really talked about it again. UM, But I did have access to my father's name, and as I got older and UM better at sleeping and finding people on the Internet, I discovered UM a law of information about my family and where my dad was. And so my secret now is that I know exactly where he is. UM. My father went to prison when I was in my twenties and is still there, and often I check in on status of his prison sentence and his whereabouts in prison, as he has quite a long sentence and has moved around quite a few times from difference UM detention centers and such. And I have found many of my family members as well cousins and aunts UM on Facebook, and have even sent a message in a sort of veiled Facebook page to an aunt and have a lot of intention of maybe meeting these people, but very real fears of offending my family if I do so. I have also recently, UM just had of pure curiosity of maybe having more have siblings, the question of twenty three and the DNA kit, and look forward to seeing if there's saying new family secrets that arise from that. But UM, I love the podcast and I'll continue to listen. Thanks. I I just felt really compelled to call and express my thanks for uh the creation of this community and space that's really allowed me to wrap my mind around and understand my own family's secret. UM. And I am my family's secret. UM. When my mother had me, she had me when she was young, and UM, I never actually told the father or my father that she was pregnant, or at least that's what I've been told at this point. I didn't know this for a long time. It wasn't until I was nine years old when she sat me down after her and um my stepdad had had a fight and he had left, and she basically said to me, you know, you don't need to worry about him anyway. He's not even your dad. So that was the end of the conversation, UM, and from there, you know, UM thirty five now, and I've spent the last twenty some odd years trying to make sense of of of what that means. UM. When I was young, I did ask for more information and was basically told it wasn't any of my business, which in retrospect, I think was a defensive reaction. She was scared and she didn't herself know what to do, especially because she never told this man that she was pregnant. But you know, it's just been in the last couple of years that I've really started to own, UM, you know, this this secret I guess, and UM, you know, own the fact that I want to know more and that I want to find this person and that it's important to me. I still struggle on the daily with you know, how to ask my mother for more information, to get more information. However, through this podcast, I've gotten the idea that an ancestry kit would be would be helpful to start my journey as I work up the courage to take for more information. Right off, anyway, I just wanted to say thank you, thank you for the community, thank you for the thought. If you'd like to share your story, call one eight eight eight secret zero and record your story. We won't be able to run all the stories, but we do want to shine a light on as many as we can. The number again is one eight eight secret and then the numeral zero. For more podcasts for my Heart Radio, visit the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.

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