Jennifer Senior Contemplates ‘The Ones We Sent Away’

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🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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“It is remarkable,” writes the Atlantic’s Jennifer Senior, “how many Americans have relations who were, at some point during the past century, sequestered from public view… warehoused, disappeared, roughly shorn from the family tree.” Senior’s aunt Adele was institutionalized as a toddler in the 1950s, and it wasn’t until 40 years later that Senior’s mother — Adele’s sister — saw her again. We talk to Jennifer Senior about her new essay “The Ones We Sent Away.” Guests: Jennifer Senior, staff writer, The Atlantic - author of the September cover story "The Ones We Sent Away" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:56.0	thought her mother was an only child.
0:58.0	But when she was 12, she learned that her mom did in fact have a younger sister, named Adele,
1:03.0	who'd been institutionalized when Adele was just a toddler.
1:07.0	Senior writes, without any malevolent intent, we'd all colluded in one woman's erasure,
1:12.2	and our entire family had been the poorer for it.
1:15.3	Seniors' new Atlantic cover story is about her efforts to get to know her Aunt Adele
1:18.9	and confront the profound effects Adele's absence had on her family.
1:23.8	Jennifer Sr.'s piece is called The Ones We Sent Away.
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