DAD: Forgive and Forget

The Heart

Kaitlin Prest

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Episode 1: Kaitlin and her Dad fought so much when she was a teenager that the family calls those years '“World War III”. She tells the story of what happened after she left home and decided to love him anyway. As she became an adult, therapists and friends urged her to examine what really happened in those years. When she tries to talk about it with the family, she knows she has a big decision to make.

Trigger Warning: topics related to parental abuse, trauma, self-gaslighting, gaslighting, defensiveness, victim blaming

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0:00.0	Hey, do you like gay love stories?
0:03.2	What about giant rabbit hole podcasts like Estoun, where a writer gets lost researching
0:08.8	a story for like five years?
0:10.9	Check out my new podcast, Resurrection.
0:13.2	It's about a playwright named Darryl Allen.
0:15.8	You've never heard of Darryl before because he died from AIDS, before his art found success.
0:22.4	Five years ago, someone gave me hundreds of pages of handwritten love letters Darryl
0:26.8	wrote in the 1970s and I became obsessed.
0:30.1	I'm Danes Stewart.
0:31.4	Listen to Resurrection now, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:34.9	From CBC podcasts, Mermaid Palace and Radiotopia, welcome to the heart.
0:46.2	I'm Kate Impressed.
0:49.5	And this is Dad.
0:54.3	A love story about a dad and his daughter, my dad and me.
1:01.6	So you get it.
1:03.6	Yeah, I guess I wouldn't mind if you played some rough drafts for a while.
1:09.3	Oh, I will.
1:10.3	Oh, I won't.
1:11.3	That's part of the process.
1:12.3	Basically, though, I feel like it's all truth.
1:16.2	So I have no problem.
1:17.9	I have no problem with truth.
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