42: The Namesake - Part 2
Family Ghosts
Sam Dingman
4.8 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
"You can open up a book and choose a sentence at random, and derive meaning from it."
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to WALT. |
| 0:02.3 | Oh, bro. |
| 0:06.4 | Homemade Radio. |
| 0:08.6 | Hello, Ghost Family. |
| 0:10.5 | Welcome to Family Ghosts. |
| 0:12.4 | MUSIC |
| 0:20.0 | In our last episode, you met my friend, Jessie Pascarelli. |
| 0:24.2 | Jessie is named after her aunt, Jessie, |
| 0:26.5 | who died in a tragic car accident |
| 0:28.6 | long before Jesse was born. |
| 0:34.1 | Jesse's story has been making me think a lot about my uncle, Dick. |
| 0:38.3 | My dad's brother, who died very young, before I was born. |
| 0:42.3 | I did an episode about Dick in the first season of Family Ghosts. |
| 0:46.6 | And talking to Jesse for this series, |
| 0:49.1 | she used this beautiful image to describe her experience |
| 0:52.6 | of trying to learn about her aunt Jesse. |
| 0:55.1 | She said it's like filling in pages in a coloring book. |
| 0:59.1 | No one in her family has the definitive story. |
| 1:02.1 | They just have snippets and anecdotes. |
| 1:04.6 | Dashes of color that gradually start to fill in an abstract portrait |
| 1:09.6 | of a person that Jesse ultimately can't ever know. |
| 1:13.6 | It made me think about the end of my story about my uncle. |
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