Adrienne Brodeur: ...the consequences of keeping a big secret

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🗓️ 5 May 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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We are thrilled to welcome Adrienne Brodeur to this episode. She is the author of the highly acclaimed new memoir, Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me. It's a mother-daughter story unlike any you've heard!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:14.6	And I'm Laura Owens.
0:16.2	And we are thrilled to welcome Adrian Broder to our episode this time.
0:20.8	Adrian is the author of the highly
0:22.8	acclaimed new memoir entitled Wild Game, My Mother, Her Lover, and Me. It's a mother-daughter story,
0:30.3	unlike most other mother-daughter stories, and it's a real page-turner. As a mother-daughter duo
0:36.0	ourselves, we found it fascinating, and we think our
0:38.8	listeners will too. Adrian, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you so much for having me. I'm a
0:44.6	huge fan of your podcast, and I'm really thrilled to be on it. Oh, well, we're so happy to have you.
0:49.3	This story has been simmering in your life since you were 14, and it's a really fascinating story. Can you tell us how
0:55.8	it all began? Yes, absolutely. So my story began on a hot July night on Cape Cod in about 1980,
1:05.4	and I was 14 years old, and I was alone in my bedroom, you know, mostly asleep, half asleep, a little bit
1:12.4	thinking about a boy, but mostly asleep. And at some point, well after midnight, my door opened
1:17.8	and my mother, whose name is Malabar, came in. And she tried to wake me up. And she said,
1:23.7	Reni, which is my nickname, wake up, wake up, I need you. And I remember so clearly not
1:30.2	wanting to be awakened. And then she said, Ben Souther just kissed me. And with that, of course,
1:36.5	my eyes popped open because Ben Souther was my stepfather's best friend, and Ben Souther was married, which of course my mother was
1:47.0	married, and they were couple friends. And although I didn't know it in the moment, my mother was
1:53.2	about to embark on this epic, epic love affair that would last over a dozen years. But what I did know,
2:04.6	even in real time, in that moment, that it was one of those moments in life with a before and after, and nothing would ever be the same. And so I'd gone to
2:10.6	bed as my mother's daughter, but I woke up the next day as her confidant and best friend.
2:17.1	How did that feel as a teenager hearing this from your mother?
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