Bonus: Listener Stories, Episode 9

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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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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

(00:23):
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.

(00:44):
This week, I'd like to share a few of those
stories from our community. Thanks for listening. Hi, um Mom
would just want to share my family secrets. I was
either four or five, and I'm fifty five now, but
as I was a little girl, woke up milba night,
went downstairs to go pee and was grabbed by some

(01:07):
man in the dark. He put his hand over my
mouth in the back of my head, so picked me
up by my head and he walks me to my
parents bedroom and says there's nothing they can do to
help you, now, which I well. I he said this.
I was looking in at down the sleep I just
went lamp. Never remembered any nothing after that. Still to

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this day do not remember anything like that. So for many,
many years I was haunted by this this what happened
the spear at eleven? I asked my mom if this happened,
I told her about it. She said no, so okay,
so still terrified my whole life. About nine years ago

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I asked my oldest sister, who has since passed away,
about it. She said, well, this is not the story
that happened. She said, what how en was? Mom and
dad had a party. She said, some man grabbed me
and took off with me. And she says, Mom, Dad,
somebody's got you know, said my name, somebody's got me.

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And she said they tackled him, got me away from
this guy. So if that actually that version happened, then
it happened twice. This man, whoever he was, came to
get me twice. I had no one else to ask now,
because both parents are dead. You know, Mom initially denied it,
and my only school, you know, my older sister who's dead, said,

(02:36):
you know what happened. But what I do remember was,
you know, all through life, you know, if I would
be so scared, scared of you know, leaving the house,
you know, because he came into my house obviously twice,
but I get so scared I would actually literally wake
up and not know where I was, no talent, how

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much time had passed. I you know, my first memory
of that happening with me missing time was thirteen. The
last time it happened was probably you know, I think
twenty five years ago was the last time. But it
only happens when I get severely strussed, and I know,
you know, whatever, you know, whatever this happened, whatever this
guy did, I don't know, but you know, still to

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this day at fifty five, still haunts me, and this
want to I guess actually voices Hi. I just wanted
to share my stories. I had been told live and
UM other stories to make me believe that I was
the natural child of my parents UM and then also UM.

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I come to find out later, much later in life,
that my mother, her mother that raised her, was actually
her grandmother and she was born to who she believed
was her sister. So that was kept hidden from everyone.
It someone had brought it to my attention, and next
boyfriend of mine UM had brought it to my attention
that they look a lot alike, and I never really

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thought about it much. I had just kind of accepted
the story that my grandmother was my grandmother, not my
great grandmother. And then I saw a picture one of
um my sister, well my aunts, sorry, and it looked
exactly like my mom, and it just all kind of

(04:31):
clicked to me at one point that yes, this is
actually her her biological mother. Um. And so that's there's
kind of a lot of shame and secrets and things,
and my family, um, you know, include myself and my
mother included, and my mom and my dad are both
deceased now, so the secrets are kind of buried with them,

(04:53):
and there's no more information than I can get about
what had happened or anything like that. So it's my
league story. Hi Danny, Um, I really first of all,
I want to thank you guys for putting up this podcast.
I'm a little late at the party and just now
getting privy to it. But I want to also admit
that I am the family's secret. I I don't know

(05:16):
who my biological father is. I've never met him, and
as far as everything goes, he doesn't know like this,
and I've been on the search for him for about
eight months now, I joined a DNA site and nothing

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nothing fitting. And it's really heavy to be that burden.
And I don't want to cause them any trouble, but
I just want them to know that I'm out there
and I would like to know what they look like.
I want to cause anyone any drama or anything. And
you know, as far as like Frank's story goes like,
I don't want to uproot anyone's I guess perception of

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what their reality is. I just want to kind of
know a little bit more about me and maybe stuff
relating to So thank you very much and I love
your podcast and I will keep listening. If you'd like

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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.

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