The Secret Christie's Mom Keeps From Her

What's a secret your parents kept from you? Christie's mom has one secret that Christie still doesn't know the answer to! 

Episode Transcript

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You listening to Morning Drive with ChristieLive on demand. Oh six twenty three
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My name is Christie. Producer Karinais here at seven twenty You can
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it is off to a good startthis morning. I want to talk about

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secrets. We all have those deepdown family secrets. And you know what,
my mama, Miss Ruthie, hasa secret that even my brother and
I don't know. Oh yes,and it is her age. Oh.
People always ask me because my momjust had a birthday, Oh how old

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is she? I'm like, Ihave no clue. I have no idea,
none, none at all. Notyes in the world really. But
here's the kicker. I had alittle get together at my house for my
mom and my friend Paul was like, oh, your mom told me how
old she was. What I waslike, what I have known my mother
for all my thirty five years oflife and that secret. I don't even

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know how you are. But backto miss Ruthie, you have said that
before. You don't know how oldshe is? I don't. Whenever I
was growing up and asked my momhow old she was. She would always
say old enough to be your mother. And so when people ask me how
old is your mom, I'm like, old enough to be my mother.
But she ended up telling your friendPaul. I was like, are you
kidding me? Wow? Real well? And Paul's like, I can tell

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you. I don't even want toknow. I don't even want to know.
Now, forget it. Keep thatsecret to yourself. Get it shady,
miss Ruthie church going. But itmade me think there are those secrets
that everybody has in their family,and so why not share this morning we

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always share with each other. Oneeight sixty six, nine hundred and one
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AB. Do you have any secretsthat your parents kept from you that you
found out later? Yeah, mygrandfather I didn't find out till I was
an adult. He had a firstkid that we had no clue about with

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another woman and we didn't find out. So we were like, in our
what am I'm thirties your grandfather?My grandfather had a baby before he had
all the kids with like my momand her brothers and siblings he had another
secret kid? Did your mom know? She knew, but she never told
us. And so we were adultsand then this guy comes into the United

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States and was like, Hey,I'm trying to check down my family.
Nobody, none of the nieces,none of the grandkids, nobody knew that
there was this secret kid that hehad prior to my grandmother. Mmmmm,
and we didn't find out. We'relike, who is this guy? Like
he come from? Tell you twentythree and me and those DNA tests you
busted out? All the family secretsis they're a secret that your parents kept

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from you growing up that you foundout about later in life. You don't
even have to share your name,but share the tea because we want to
know. This morning on eighties plusA one o three point seven, Christie
live family secrets. We all gotthem. But is there one that you
found out about that your parents werekeeping from you? That's the question this

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morning Sadie's Plus at one o threepoint seven six thirty nine. Good morning,
Stephanie, Thanks for calling my parents. I'm sure there are many,
but one in particular I remember thatdrove me nuts. They wouldn't tell me
how old they were join the clubgirl. That's exactly what I was just
saying. My mom and Miss Ruthierefuses to tell my brother and I how

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old she is. Maybe it's agenerational thing. Oh yeah, they're old
school. They don't like people knowinghow old they are. They were always
very private about that. I hadto like look at my birth certificate to
actually know exactly your parents' age ison your birth certificate. I didn't know
that I might have to go homeand look at mine and find out my
mama, Miss Ruthy's age. Thankyou for the call, Stephanie. Good

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morning, Robin. What secret didyour parents keep from you? So when
I was a kid, my dad, I guess my parents were having financial
issues and he decided to rob abank. He what yeah, and he
ended up in jail. And wethought as kids that he just left for
five years. That my mom waskind of like, he's working and he'll

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come back one day. And hecame back, and I didn't know.
None of my siblings and I knewuntil we were much older, and that's
where he was. Wow, thatis a hell of a secret. It
was. It was a big one. Not only did he rob a bank,
but like my parents had no problemlying to us for all these years.
So yeah, it definitely created alot of issues in our family for

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sure. That is crazy, man. That's like the Golden State Killers.
What, Yeah, the famous GoldenState Killer. They didn't find him for
years. She didn't know that herdad was like this famous killer that they
were looking for. This is anepisode on twenty twenty, so you need
to stop watching this madness. It'sthe truth. She didn't know this whole
time until later when he was arrested. That is so scary, right,

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I just don't know Miss Ruthie's age. Let me find out she's out there
in these streets. No, dude, appreciate you sharing yourself always your stories
with us this morning. If youhave a secret that your parents kept from
you and you found out, pleasecall and share. You don't even have
to tell your name. One eightsixty six nine hundred and one three seven

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