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Unexplained now has a substack page.

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including the Unexplained Addendum, a weekly companion piece to each new episode.

Expect essays that lean more academic and analytical, explorations of

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on the show. But it's also a home for something more personal, my fiction, my strange amusings,

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New writing every Monday.

As Philip Larkin once wrote, they fuck you up your mum and dad.

They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had and add some extra just for you. Whether for good or bad, we're all shaped by our

family dynamics. Some of us are the product of heteronormative relationships. Others will have been

raised by same-sex partners, or maybe even in non-monogamous or communal parenting

arrangements. Some of us will have grown up with two parents who live happily together,

some by parents who are separated, or perhaps by a single parent due to choice or loss.

Perhaps you were raised by your grandparents or another member of your family. Some of us

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