This is the longest shortest time I'm Hillary Frank and my name is Terry Gross.

The host of Fresh Air, which is an NPR interview program.

Terry Gross you guys, Terry Gross.

She is a radio hero.

She's a hero of mine.

I've been lucky enough to know Terry for a while, about 10 years.

I have been used to work for her.

In fact, he was a producer at Fresh Air when our daughter was born.

Terry, of course, is a master interviewer, but she's also really private.

Today she opens up and talks about something incredibly personal.

Her choice to not have children.

Now I learned so much in this conversation.

I learned why Terry chose not to have kids, but I also learned about how she sees herself

as a true feminist pioneer and about how she got the life that she wanted.

Terry has let out little nuggets about her life on her show and in other interviews.

So here are some of the things that she's talked about just to give you some background.

She's 65 years old.

She was born on Valentine's Day in 1951.

She likes to talk about how that was actually a dark time here in the United States.

It was the era of McCarthyism.

It was also just after the Holocaust.

Terry grew up in Brooklyn in the Sheepshead Bay neighborhood.

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