Hey everyone, Rebecca here. I am so excited to share with you one of my favorite podcasts.

Stolen is an investigative podcast hosted by my friend and pre-journalist Connie Walker.

This season, Stolen, surviving St. Michaels explores the traumatic legacy of Canada's

residential school system. This reporting was personal for Connie. It brought her home to Saskatchewan

to investigate a secret within her own family. What she uncovered was a much bigger story.

In May, Stolen was recognized with both the Pulitzer Prize and a Peabody Award.

So we hope you enjoyed this episode. And if you'd like to hear more, you can find the full

season by searching Stolen wherever you get your podcasts. Before we start the show,

we want to let you know that this episode contains references to violence and sexual abuse against

children. Please take care while listening. Where I come from, the open plains are broken up

by gravel roads that intersect every mile or so and small paved highways linking tiny town to tiny town.

Driving at night on these roads, it can feel like you're the only person around for miles and miles.

And on the nights where there's no moon, it's dark and heavy and quiet.

If something happened out here, it might never be discovered.

One night in the late 1970s, something did happen. Two men met out here in the darkness.

Their chance encounter felt like fate because they had met before, but under very different

circumstances. One of those men was my dad. He was a police officer in rural Saskatchewan.

My dad was driving alone in his patrol car when he spotted a set of tail lights

swirving ahead of him in the darkness. He flipped on his lights and the car pulled over on the

side of the road. My dad got out of his cruiser and walked up to the driver's side window.

He motioned for the man inside to roll it down and as he raised his flashlight,

he realized he recognized the man behind the wheel. He knew that face, those eyes, the white collar under

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