One day, I was with my mother's partner at the time.

We were in the car, and like a Rolling Stone came on.

And he said to me, there's a line in there about your mother.

And I said, what?

I mean, it was just inconceivable.

It was like he was telling me your mother knew Shakespeare.

It was one of those stories that made and refused sense at the same time.

And I knew that something was missing.

And I was also scared of knowing more.

I was scared of wanting to believe it. I was scared of knowing something that would be a completely different story of my life. That's Sam Sussman, on the moment

he discovers the possible identity of his father, Bob Dylan.

And, you know, I think like many parents, my mother used a car ride in a captive audience

to have difficult conversation. And she brought him up. And it was really the first time that

unprotted, she spoke to me about him up. And it was really the first time that unprotted,

she spoke to me about their relationship and about meeting him.

She talked to me about how she'd met him in 1974.

And at a certain point, I said, did you ever see him again?

And she said yes.

And she told me that they had been in touch again,

much later on, including the year before I was born.

I'm Danny Shapiro, and welcome to the 13th season of Family Secrets.

It never ceases to amaze and inspire me, the courage and

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