Growing up, Adam Frankel idolized his father and his father’s father, eventually following in their footsteps to become a successful speechwriter for politicians like John Kerry and Barack Obama. But at the age of 25, Adam discovered a truth that caused him to question everything—including his place in the lineage he’d molded his life around.
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03/19/20 • 46 min
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Family Secrets - Bubbe and Zayde and Grandma and Pa
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Family Secrets is a production of I Heart Radio throughout my childhood. A pair of framed family trees hung on an upstairs wall in Grandman Pause colonial style home, white with black shutters, in the wealthy, largely Jewish suburb of Scarsdale, a short commute from New York City. I'd go up to them as a boy and stare at the rows of generations spanning the two sheets of beige paper, feeling a sense of pride. This is where I come from. I think, th
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