Molly Shannon’s Unspeakable Loss

All There Is with Anderson Cooper

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

When Molly Shannon was four, her mother, baby sister and cousin were killed in a car crash. Her father was at the wheel. Growing up, few people ever spoke with her about her grief. She and Anderson explore how early loss shaped both their lives, and propelled them forward in unexpected ways.

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0:00.0	You ready for bed?
0:03.0	No.
0:04.0	You ready for your nap?
0:07.0	No.
0:08.0	One of the most unexpected things about having kids is that it's helped us soothe an
0:13.1	ache of loneliness I've felt since my dad died when I was 10 years old.
0:17.0	Can you count?
0:18.0	What?
0:19.0	Yeah.
0:20.0	That's 2G bus.
0:23.0	Yay!
0:24.0	My son Wyatt is named after my dad who was 50 when he died while undergoing a
0:29.9	heart surgery on January 5, 1978.
0:33.6	At some point my mom had my dad's things packed up and stored away.
0:37.2	She could never bring herself to actually go through them.
0:39.8	So now that my mom has died and I'm going through her things, I'm also going through
0:43.8	my dad's.
0:45.1	Boxes was some of his clothes but mostly contact sheets of photographs that he took
0:49.1	and my brother and me also plays and articles he wrote.
0:53.1	In my mom's apartment, I also found a box of letters that friends of his sent to him
0:56.8	in the hospital.
0:58.4	Some of them like this one, he never had the chance to open.
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