The Milkman's Baby

Thanks For Asking

Feelings & Co.

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4.7 • 13.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Your sense of self when you’re young is tied to who you belong to and where you live. Morgan is Black and Pentecostal. She's the daughter of Sybil and Jon. She's their only child and has her father’s eyes. She’s from New Jersey! Her nickname — the milkman's baby — is a joke about her fairer skin. But as Morgan gets older, she realizes she actually doesn't know much about her family's history. This is a story of finding your roots, your ancestors and a new sense of self. Support our independent production (and get bonus content galore!) by joining TTFA Premium. We now offer tiers as low as $4.99 / month. Sign up. Our email subscribers get first dibs on ticket sales, new merch, show announcements and more. Join our mailing list here. Nora also writes sad & funny books! You can buy them here. Did you know we’re on TikTok? Yep, it’s true. Follow Nora. You can catch up with TTFA on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook using @ttfapodcast. Nora's Instagram is @noraborealis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is terrible thanks for asking, and I'm Nora McNearny.
0:07.2	And if this were Game of Thrones, I would tell you I'm Nora McNearny's second of my
0:10.8	name, because the first Nora McNearny in my family is buried in Lake City, Minnesota.
0:16.0	The home of Water Sking, allegedly, even though it's not a lake, it's just a wide part
0:20.5	of the Mississippi that looks lakeish.
0:23.5	It gets very calm.
0:25.7	Lake City was where Nora McNearny and her husband Patrick McNearny ended up after
0:30.9	emigrating from Ireland to Canada, then possibly to Kentucky, but definitely to Minnesota.
0:36.8	My brother's name is Patrick, which is weird, kind of gross, but there's a photo of us,
0:41.7	Patrick and Nora McNearny grinning on Nora and Patrick McNearny's gravestones on
0:47.9	a road trip that our dad took us on in the 90s to Lake City, Minnesota.
0:56.4	Growing up the fact that we were Irish, that we came from County Claire, Ireland, was a part
1:01.9	of our lives.
1:02.9	It was a part of our identity.
1:03.9	It really meant something to my dad, to be able to trace us back to somewhere, to something
1:09.2	besides Minneapolis.
1:11.3	He spent 10 years of his life tracing our family back, all the way back to the 1800s,
1:17.8	where the records disappear and the trail goes cold.
1:21.3	You can thank the English for that.
1:24.0	We laughed at my dad when he was doing this.
1:26.8	We mocked him slightly.
1:28.0	I regret that because it is a privilege to know this much about my family.
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