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Growing Pains

StoryCorps

NPR

Society & Culture

4.53.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we'll hear conversations between family members who have mended and grown their relationships over time.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Dave Isae, founder of Storycore, and this message comes from NPR sponsor Subaru and

0:05.5

the 2021 Subaru Forester featuring standard symmetrical all-wheel drive and award-winning

0:10.9

safety technology.

0:12.6

Welcome to the SUV for All You Love.

0:15.0

Learn more at Subaru.com.

0:21.5

Like any relationship, the ones we have with our parents and our parental figures can be

0:25.7

complicated.

0:27.9

So do you remember the day that you came to me and said, I don't want to live here?

0:40.7

You know, it's a relationship that we had at that time was pretty distant.

0:44.9

I was kind of holding on to it by my fingertips.

0:50.4

It's the Storycore podcast from NPR.

0:52.5

I'm your host, Camilla Koshani.

0:54.8

This week we're going to hear conversations between family members who are going through

0:58.7

it, but also they're working through it.

1:09.7

First we're going to meet Jade Rohn, who grew up in Philadelphia.

1:13.4

Her biological mom couldn't take care of her, so when Jade was seven, she entered the

1:17.4

foster care system.

1:19.4

She spent most of her childhood living with one family.

1:22.6

But when she was 17, her longtime foster mom died.

1:26.4

Her death was really hard for Jade.

1:28.6

She was losing a mom all over again.

1:31.7

Nobody asked me how I was feeling.

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