Pamela Lessard talks about losing her father to suicide and how that affected her, her family and her identity. Pamela was born in Tehran, Iran. Her family moved around the world from there because of her father’s job as a CIA agent, landing back in Washington DC in the early 1970s, then to Kabul, Afghanistan briefly, and back to Tehran for a few more years. As the Iranian Revolution started, her family was transferred to Islamabad, Pakistan and stayed there until November 1979 when student protestors attacked the American embassy. Pamela and her family left and ended up in Williamsburg, Virginia. On Christmas morning 1980, her father took his life. Sometime after his suicide her family moved to Florida. Pamela eventually settled in Washington DC, got married to Andrew Gross, had her daughter, Haley, and got her beloved dog, Skye.
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