Hey folks, this is Risk, the show where people tell true stories they never thought they

dare to share.

I'm Kevin Allison, and every Thursday we release these special episodes where we look back

at content from our earlier years. This week,

an episode that premiered in November of 2013, and wow, all three of these stories became known

as Risk Classics, a weed-smoking granny, a very intense trip to North Korea, and a very

inappropriate thing that happened at a zoo.

It's an episode we call Family Secrets.

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I'm Kevin Allison,

and this is Haven-Lar-A-Lemmy behind me now. My granddad used to say there's no

a lemmy like a-Hvon-Lar-A-Lemmy. And it's all too apropos that I mentioned Grandad

because today's episode is called Family Secrets.

On this week that we gather with our families to give thanks,

here are three stories about how surprising life can be when you're linked to others by blood.

In just a bit, we're going to hear from Christine Lee,

an Episcopal priest in New York,

an absolutely lovely woman who took one of our workshops in storytelling

at the storystudio.org.

But before that, we're going to hear from the Bay Area-based storyteller, Mr. Josh Healy,

who told this story at the Mill Valley Library over there in the Bay Area and sent us

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