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The Longest Shortest Time

When You Tell

The Longest Shortest Time

Hillary Frank | Realm

Kids & Family, Sexuality, Parenting, Health & Fitness

4.74.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2016

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Zoe Zolbrod grew up with a secret. Now, after 4 decades, she's sharing it with the world. In this episode, find out how telling her secret has shaped the way Zoe sees herself as a mother and daughter. … Join LST+ for community and access to You Know What, another show in the Longest Shortest universe! Follow us on Instagram Website: longestshortesttime.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

So grew up with a secret, a secret she had from a very young age.

0:15.3

It was about a thing that happened to her that just felt too big to tell other people.

0:20.0

And as she got older, she'd let the secret out a little bit at a time.

0:25.2

She'd confide in one person, then another.

0:28.2

Still, it felt like a secret.

0:30.4

It was hers, and she got to decide who knew about it.

0:35.0

Then in her 40s, Zo decided to make her secret, not secret anymore.

0:40.1

She wrote a book about it.

0:42.1

Zo Zollbrods memoir is called The Telling.

0:44.9

It is heartbreaking, it is beautiful, and it is about one of the hardest things to talk about.

0:50.2

Sexual abuse.

0:51.9

Child sexual abuse.

0:55.4

This is the longest shortest time.

0:56.8

I'm Hillary Frank, and if you're thinking, uh-oh, this show is going to be a rough one.

1:02.2

Like, pedophilia, it's not a thing that I want to hear about.

1:06.4

I'm with you.

1:07.3

I'm totally with you.

1:08.6

And actually, Zo is with you too.

1:11.0

She gets it.

1:12.9

But more children than we would like to think are sexually abused.

1:16.5

About one in 10 children is sexually abused before they turn 18.

1:21.1

One in 10, that is a lot.

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