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I'm Rufus Griskam and this is the next big idea.

Today, what journalist Jesse Hemple learned when her whole family came out. Jesse Hepple was born into a family of secret keepers. Her father, the son of a minister who'd gone to law school and then to work for a Fortune 500 company, was unbeknownst to his wife and children gay.

Her mother, a tireless and sometimes erratic homemaker, had at one time been romantically linked to an alleged

serial killer, a traumatic adolescent relationship she'd kept hidden from her family.

They stuffed some aspects of themselves so deeply away, Jesse says of her parents, that they didn't understand they were hurting themselves.

Or for that matter, their children, modeling a kind of shamefaced distance that their kids

learned to adopt.

Jesse and her siblings became face distance that their kids learned to adopt.

Jesse and her siblings became secret keepers too.

Jesse hid that she was a lesbian, her sister concealed

that she was bisexual, and her brother buried the truth that he was transgender.

For decades that's how the Hemphile family got along, everyone keeping big things from everyone else.

But then in the span of a few years everything changed. They all came out.

The story of that family outing to borrow the title of Jesse's recent memoir is moving, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful.

The way Jesse sees it, we all should consider coming out.

Not about our sexuality necessarily.

For her, the idea of coming out is more expansive. We all

have parts of ourselves bigger small that we keep hidden from view. What would happen

if we all

if we all live the most authentic versions of ourselves?

What would it be like if we all lived the most authentic versions of ourselves?

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