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Brooklyn Heights was an enchanting place to grow up, but as far as I could see, it was also a world that tended towards

this lip and alcohol over transparency and self-reflection. A world, a time to perhaps, a championed achievement and less so emotional truth.

Nothing was named in this beautiful world. We were what we put on every day. We were the stories we told. We were the food, the wine, the linens.

There's a strength to this approach, a relentless of survival and success. And I learned early that this works for some, that this for some will always be enough.

For others, would be more than enough, and more than they had. I also learned that this was not what I needed, that there was a danger even when the choreography of life depends upon the denial of so much of the rest.

Of all that is messy and undeniable. Of all that is human. Success even becomes a wicked word when your own definition of it is different from that of the ones hoping for you to succeed.

When it becomes clear that it's you who is different.

That's Chloe Shaw, author of the luminous memoir What Is A Dog. Chloe's story is tender and beautiful, and at its center is about the secrets we hold in our innermost selves, the ones that don't allow others to know us, and rob us of our voice.

It's also about the saving graces all around us, if only we know where to look.

I'm Danny Shapiro, and this is Family Secrets. The secrets that are kept from us, the secrets we keep from others, and the secrets we keep from ourselves.

I'm an only child. We ended up when I was about 18 months old in Brooklyn Heights, New York, due to my father's job as an architect.

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