Pulling the Thread

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Learning to See Our Parents as They Are (Priscilla Gilman)

Listen now (62 min) | "And then there was that moment where she sent me that brief email where she affirmed his essential goodness, his essential integrity and his worth as a father, which was..."

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Elise Loehnen
Feb 10, 2023
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Priscilla Gilman is an author, critic, and former professor of English literature at Vassar College and Yale University. In her first book, The Anti-Romantic Child: A Memoir of Unexpected Joy, Priscilla writes of the challenges and delights of raising her son Benjamin, who is …

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