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May 18, 2022 44 mins

In 2011, Oprah Winfrey did a show in which she was as much subject as host. In it, she revealed and spoke to her long-lost half-sister. It was a show that dove into family secrets, the stories we tell about ourselves, and deep emotion.

Special guest: Kendra Field, professor of history at Tufts University, author of “Growing Up with the Country: Family, Race, and Nation after the Civil War”

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Producer Nina Earnest, Executive Producer Jody Avirgan. Artwork by Jonathan Conda.

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