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Death, Sex & Money

My Father's Secret Life

Death, Sex & Money

Slate Audio

Careers, Sexuality, Business, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture

4.67.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2014

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Whitney Joiner's father told her he was HIV-positive in 1992. When she asked if he was gay, he said no. Now, she's looking for answers about the father she never knew. Support Death, Sex & Money by becoming a monthly sustaining member. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Every once in a while he would say these very strange things, like, if anything ever happens to me, you

0:07.6

guys will be taken care of.

0:09.4

Out of the blue, and it's kind of like, what would go wrong? Like, why would anything happen to you?

0:14.3

But underneath, there's this very unsettling feeling

0:17.0

of like, I don't know what you're trying to tell me, Dad.

0:20.0

This is, death, sex, and money.

0:26.0

You're killing me, Smoss.

0:28.0

The show from WNC about the things we think about a lot.

0:31.0

You're a virgin who can't drive and need to talk about more.

0:35.9

I make more money than Calvin Coolidge. I'm Anna Sale. I have this photo here of my dad asleep.

0:47.6

This is Whitney Joyner.

0:49.2

We're sitting in her Brooklyn kitchen and she's just pulled this picture off of her refrigerator.

0:54.1

I don't know whose porch this is.

0:55.8

He's taking a nap.

0:56.8

It's probably somewhere in Kentucky, where they lived when she was growing up.

1:00.4

No date on the back.

1:02.0

But I like this because it's just him in repose.

1:05.0

Having photos of her dad around her apartment, this is new for Whitney.

1:10.0

Only in the last year or so has she really looked at what he left behind.

1:14.4

I have his family Bible. I have his copy of Gone with the Wind, which apparently he read 17 times.

1:19.8

Whitney's father, Joe died in September 1992, and there are a lot of things she doesn't know about

1:25.1

his life.

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