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"My parents were waiting for me to become something they’d approve of, and I was waiting for them to accept me for who I was."

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To populate our Substack page, we’re re-running some old essays on Fridays. This one is for the adult children out there: It took some old VHS tapes from my parents’ storage unit to remind me that even the most dysfunctional families have happy memories hidden somewhere.

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