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The Mortified Podcast

46 Jill: Dear Grandpa

The Mortified Podcast

Mortified Media and Radiotopia

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2016

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

A teenager writes her diary to her recently deceased grandfather — only to share with him every graphic detail about her love life. The Mortified Podcast is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Listen @ getmortified.com/podcast.

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0:00.0

Radio Tepi-A from PRX.

0:10.0

February 14, 1998.

0:13.0

Sixth grade.

0:14.0

Dear diary.

0:15.0

Dear Jesus.

0:16.0

Dear sweet ass-watt.

0:17.0

Adults.

0:18.0

Sharing the embarrassing things.

0:20.0

They created us kids.

0:21.0

So I wrote poems about masturbation.

0:22.0

Before an audience.

0:23.0

Of total strangers.

0:24.0

I feel like an idiot.

0:25.0

I'm the only normal one in my entire family.

0:28.0

Mom, you can't read this.

0:30.0

These are the stories hidden inside the pages of our past.

0:34.0

You're listening to the Mordified Podcast.

0:38.0

I'm Dave.

0:39.0

And today's episode peaks inside the teenage diary of Jill Demansky.

0:43.0

Growing up had a truly special relationship with her grandfather.

0:47.0

We were very close.

0:48.0

I saw him a lot because we lived very close by.

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