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From KQED.

The From KQED in San Francisco, this is Forum.

I'm Mina Kim.

Atlantic Senior Editor Janisha Watts writes in her

October cover story called Janisha from Kentucky. I've spent my whole life trying to belong to show

people that I'm not like them, not a black person living in poverty, not a black person with an

addiction. When Watts began her career in journalism, she hid the details of her childhood. But now,

for the first time, she's telling her story. And we'll talk with Watts about what it means to

share the trauma we're so used to hiding. Have you tried to hide parts of your life story? Join

us after this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim. When Janisha Watts moved to New York to take a temp job at Essence magazine, she was sure of one thing. No one could ever know her past. A past of

growing up in a crack house that was regularly raided by police, of having a mother addicted to drugs,

of being separated from her siblings who were taken by the state. But she tells the story of her

past now in the October issue of the Atlantic. Though she

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