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MFM Minisode 412

December 02, 2024 /

This episode of My Favorite Murder features listener stories about parenting mishaps, family histories, and humorous childhood memories. The hosts, Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark, read various emails from listeners sharing their experiences.

One story from a listener named Cicely discusses how a joke about dropping her child off at a fire station led to her daughter developing a fear of firefighters. The hosts relate to the humor in parenting failures, emphasizing the importance of sharing these moments.

Another listener, Mary, shares a touching story about Delia Berry, an 83-year-old woman from Ireland who gained recognition for knitting sweaters featured in the Oscar-nominated film The Banshees of Inisherin. The hosts express admiration for Delia's resilience and creativity.

Jay, another listener, recounts a family tragedy involving a murder that has shaped their family's interest in true crime. The story highlights the emotional impact of loss and the generational effects of trauma.

Lastly, a humorous email from Kate describes a bizarre experience at a Christian summer camp, where she felt pressured to conform to religious practices. The hosts appreciate the comedic elements of the story and the listener's candidness about their past.

TLDR

Listeners share humorous and emotional stories about parenting, family tragedies, and summer camp experiences.

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You send in emails. We agreed we would read them. What more do you want us to do?
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And they can be about anything at this point in life. Yeah. I mean, fuck it, you know?
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Truly. Would you like to go first? This one's called Creating New Fears for My Child.
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Hello from Virginia. In a recent hometown, y'all asked for our own trash parenting stories, and I am finally in there.
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Yeah. I was 21 when I had my first child, so basically a baby raising a baby. and somewhere along the way I started joking with her about quote dropping her off at the fire
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station. My mom did a similar thing because they have the baby drop boxes and I always thought it
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was a joke. We even joked about how she would have to tuck her knees because she's probably getting
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too big for the box. One day when she was about five years old when I dropped her off at her
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on-base daycare they informed me that the fire department would be doing an annual walk-through
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later in the day. Okay, cool. No big deal. Until her daycare provider called me a few hours later
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because when my daughter saw the fire truck out front, she ran into a closet screaming,
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no, don't take me. I'll be good. That's right. My daughter thought the fire department had come
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to pick her up and take her away. She was hysterical. Turns out I had successfully made
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her terrified of all firefighters. Good news. She's now 15 and no longer scared,
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but it was super fun explaining to her daycare provider that I was actually a terrible parent
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and to please not report us. Thank you guys for all that you do and keeping me company on long
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drives into work, Cicely. And then it says, good luck on the pronunciation. I just go with whatever
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these days. It looks like Cicely. Cicely or Cicely? Cicely. I'm going to go Cicely. Cicely's cool.
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Yeah. I like that name. I like a self-reporting trash parent. I do too. Please, if you've been
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trashy and you want to talk about it, we're here for you. You all have those stories. We know it.
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I mean, come on. Also, it's that thing where I think for my trash babysitter story of my own,
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it was like I only ever related to other adults. So I forgot that children do not relate the same
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way. Yeah. And I wonder if it's like that's part of it. It's like you're a young parent and you're
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just like, oh, wait. Okay, that's right. Okay. Here's my first story. The subject line is an
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Irish hometown story with a difference. Hi, Karen, Georgia, Stephen, Alejandra, and all furry creatures.
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I love you gals, obviously, as you brighten up my day. It says brighten up me day. Oh, me day.
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Because they're Irish. Me day. As you brighten up me day. My walks, when I'm cooking, etc., etc. I first
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came across your podcast a few years ago when I heard my colleagues giggling in the office with
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their earphones in. They were all listening to you while working. Nice. So I could tell you about
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the spooky happenings in the house I grew up in that's over 120 years old, but I'll leave that to
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another time and tell you about something way better. I wanted to let you know about a fantastic
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83-year-old from Ireland who was a crucial behind-the-scenes part of the Banshees of
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Vinasheeran. Oh, shit. Did you watch that movie? I loved that movie. We think it's such a lovely
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story and of course Karen's Irish so we wanted to share it with you. Delia Berry joined the
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knitting group through Greystone's cancer support when her husband Patty died over 10 years ago.
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She found friends and comfort from this group and from GCS so she wanted to give something special
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back. Something else special about Delia is that she also took in her sister's four children when
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she lost her sister to cancer many years ago. Delia is Jesus's favorite person. She shot to fame having knit the iconic jumpers sweaters for Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, and Barry Keoghan in the Oscar-nominated movie The Banshees of Inish.
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So that movie is like the sweaters are the third lead. And Delia is the one who made all of them.
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Also Colin Farrell sister who actually won an Oscar for Best Supporting Carrie something has an incredible cardigan that I was obsessed with I watched it like three times I wonder if she made it You can commission one
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Oh, that's right. Delia, I need to talk to you. Okay. So Brendan Gleeson has even asked her to knit two more for him since.
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What we didn't know before now was that Delia is no stranger to the celebrity world.
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having knit for Meryl Streep for her role in Dancing at Luganza, and having taught Emily Watson how to knit for her role in the movie Little Women.
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Cute. Delia is an international superstar. Teach me how to knit. She fits knitting in and around her bingo and walks around her town,
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Greystones, County Wicklow, in the Garden of Ireland. In the Garden of Ireland? Is that a saying?
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You tell me. I can't. How cool is she, right? If you'd like to read more about our famous and generous Delia, you can read all about her in the New York Times, Vogue, the Daily Mail, to name a few.
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This is the best. Stay sexy and don't get murdered and wrap yourself in a cost-knit Erin sweater knit with love.
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Mary. Wow. Mary, I love that email. It makes you want to be an old lady. Like, I'm excited to be an old lady.
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Also, it's like the thing that brought her to knitting was this painful, difficult thing that then knitting actually helped her with.
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And then she kind of kept powering through. And then she was like, now everybody loves my knitting.
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And now she needs her own movie. Yeah, she actually does. And like all those stars will come and star in it with her.
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Goodbye. Goodbye. Okay, just found out my uncle's death was a murder. All the requisite pleasantries and compliments.
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I'm from a large East Coast Puerto Rican family of murderinos. My abuelo's grandparents were married for almost 70 years before abuelo became an ancestor.
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Isn't that a beautiful way of saying he passed on? Yeah. And I am the oldest of 16 grandchildren.
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Several of us kids grew up on a heavy dose of diagnosis murder, 2020, CSI, and the list goes on.
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Diagnosis murder? Yeah. Recently, I think I uncovered our family's Murderino origin story.
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When I was growing up, our relative Rosa, and it says all names changed, would occasionally come visit from Puerto Rico with her two kids, Letty and Roberto.
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Rosa's relation to us was unclear, but I assumed that she was a distant aunt. During their visits, they would go to the local cemetery where Rosa's husband, my assumed uncle, was buried.
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I always wondered why he would be here instead of in Puerto Rico. Cut to a few weeks ago, a handful of the family was at Abuela's house, pouring through old albums and bins of pictures.
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My sister pulls out an 8x10 portrait of a handsome young man that looked like it was from the 60s.
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Who's this? she asked. Oh, that's Javier, Rosa's husband, my Abuela said solemnly.
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You know, she said, turning to me, they killed him. I instantly had about a million questions and went to work trying to get them all answered.
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So here's the story I was able to get from my abuela, my mom, and a free trial to a newspaper website.
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In the mid-80s, Rosa unfortunately had a miscarriage. Javier, who was my abuelo's cousin, that's how they're related, dropped off a young Letty and Roberto at my abuelo's house so he could go be with Rosa in the hospital.
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It was the last time any of our family would see him alive. His body was found in a field the next day.
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He was 38 years old. The police interviewed everyone at my abuelo house including my mom since that was the last place he was seen It took months of investigation but the story came together Javier dropped off the kids and was carjacked on the way to the hospital He withdrew from the ATM and 25 minutes later his car was found on fire in a residential area They found him the following day He had been shot execution style
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Nearly two years later, three suspects were arrested and one was eventually convicted.
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He was also convicted of killing a cab driver a few weeks after Javier's murder and is suspected to be involved in a few other murders.
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After the trial, Rosa took the kids and moved back to Puerto Rico. So this happened in the U.S.?
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Yeah. By all accounts, she was never the same. Apparently, the murderer was up for parole in 2019 and my uncle spoke at the hearing on behalf of our family.
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Everyone kept it quiet because they didn't want Rosa to find out. We're unsure of what the outcome was, but COVID hit shortly thereafter and the murderer died in prison.
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I found his obituary and it's clear his family loved him very much, just as our family loved Javier.
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That's like a really beautiful sentiment. Yeah, it is. Yeah. I've been musing about what could make a 23-year-old man who was full of potential go on a robbery and murder spree, but this email is long enough.
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the whole ordeal was traumatizing for my family and my theory is that it created a generational
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anxiety that fuels our interest in true crime or maybe it's just a horrible story that i feel the
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need to wrap up nicely either way stay sexy and don't carjack people jay she her wow jay classic
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hometown and also just so personal and kind of beautiful yeah like because yeah why would a 23
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year old be not just robbing people, robbing and murdering. Yeah. Like this like email makes it clear that Jay has a really big heart.
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You know what I mean? Like I totally got that just from the story being told. Right.
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Yeah. Thank you for sending that in. Okay. We're going to take a little left turn and go do subject line culty Christian camp.
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Okay. And then it just says sup. You all have been the voices I fall asleep to for years now.
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So thank you for your sweet murderous bedtime tales. They've definitely helped me avoid the shame merry-go-round.
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I typically ride as I'm falling asleep. So thank you. I am very familiar with that ride.
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I've been on it a time or two myself. Honored to be part of the soundtrack. I mean, actually, that kind of just made me think where it's like, yeah, if it's a shame merry-go-round, how do you avoid it?
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It's like you have to do a step up of engaging different feelings, stronger feelings.
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Make something louder. Yeah. And we're fucking plenty loud. I was re-listening to Minnesota 278 the other night, and it sparked a memory of summer camp for me that I had to tell you guys.
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In the late 90s, I went to a Christian summer camp with my best friend for some God-forsaken reason, and it was as close to being inducted into a cult as I have ever come.
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Picture it. Summer in the Rocky Mountains, clean-cut Christian teenager camp counselors, horseback riding, mess halls, and coming home with hand-foot-mouth disease.
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Oh, my God. No. I was about to say, I went to a camp like that, but it was Jewish.
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No, we did not. Didn't get that. All the camp staples, it says, except throw some very weird Christian spice in there.
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We attended sunrise sermons, lunchtime Bible studies, and midnight campfire sermons.
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One of the stranger games, quote unquote, they had us play, was to go out into the forest
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after dark in pairs of two and find counselors scattered around acting like they were non-believers.
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and we had to do our best to convert them or convince them to give Christianity a try.
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Oh my God. Like a culty scavenger hunt. The whole week culminated into a sunset sermon overlooking the mountains given by the owner
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of the camp, singing worship songs and everyone becoming very emotional. At one point, he told all the campers to close their eyes and raise their hands if they felt
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like they accepted Jesus into their heart this week. I was absolutely nosy and peeked and saw my best friend raise her hand.
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And because I'm a girl's girl and definitely did not want to be left out, I raised my hand too.
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That's the right answer. The speaker then asked us to lower our hands and open our eyes and asked who would be brave enough to come stand up front if we had raised our hand.
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Well, mama didn't raise no pussy. So I got up. I mean so I got up and went to the front with some reluctant others
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expecting my best friend to come up too she did not so there I was standing up while the crowd cheered
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and my best friend got teary eyed saying how glad she was that I finally accepted Jesus
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what the fuck Chelsea oh no the speaker then asked us to write our name in the book of life
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whatever the fuck that was that's a Jewish thing is it? oh they just kind of blended a little
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Well, you still want a lot of shit, but yeah, go ahead. Really sorry. On behalf of me and Chelsea.
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Sorry. That's really funny. What if they were like ex-Jewish, now they were born again Christian?
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Yeah. But this actually was kind of effective. I like this one. Yeah. Well, I winkled my way out of that step and decided I didn't think summer camp was for me anymore.
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So actually, that's right where she stops. Anyway, thank you for all you do. You've been my most reliable best friends through years of postpartum depression, regular depression, and finding a wonderful therapist to help unpack all that shit.
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Partly due to listening to you guys talk about the ways you have benefited from therapy.
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You're both wonderful. Stay sexy and definitely stay out of the forest at a Christian summer camp.
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Kate, she, her. Oh, that's really funny. She winkled her way out of that one. Winkled.
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time to gather dust. Because Next doesn't wait for an invitation and Hyundai doesn't either. Hyundai
00:18:10
has always moved the future within reach. Hyundai did it by making advanced safety standard on every
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vehicle. Hyundai did it by engineering EVs with ultra fast charging capability. And Hyundai continues
00:18:20
doing it every day. From robotics that change how people live to young athletes changing the game,
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the future isn't some far-off concept. It's already here. Next starts now. Hyundai,
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an official partner of FIFA. Goodbye. If you're always on the lookout for a great audiobook or
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My last one's called the Anne Frank sandwich story. Hello. I love you all. Let's fucking go.
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For the past 10 years, I have been the proud stepmom to Ella, 20, and Sam, 23. And I myself
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have a pretty rad stepmom. This story took place when Ella was around seven. My husband and I had
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been struggling to get Ella to eat the lunches we packed her for school. The excuses were rampant,
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ran out of time, didn't have a fork, an alien invaded the lunchroom, etc. It was a temporarily
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frustrating time in our lives, to be sure, and many grapes were sacrificed. One day after school,
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Ella was telling me about her day and what she learned. As she did so, her excitement grew.
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She wrote a book. She's famous, as if the subject were a pop culture celebrity. As I listened, it did not seem as if said historical figure's whole story had been told, and I started to wonder what the fuck to say to help her understand the horror and atrocity Anne Frank endured without crushing my sweet child's innocence.
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I asked her a few follow-ups as she unpacked her things, and we delicately made our way around the topic until it seemed she started to grasp the tiny bits of reality being sprinkled in, and her fangirl tone became a little more balanced.
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How do you? She wrote a book. She was a fan. She wrote a book. She was a fan. Well, also, it is exciting that you're that age and you would get a book published.
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Yeah. I'm sure she was like, could I do that? Totally. Yeah. So deciding not to totally ruin her afternoon, I suggested she go outside and play.
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As I unpacked her lunchbox, I was once again greeted by an uneaten sandwich. Taking a breath, I went out back and simply asked why she hadn't eaten it that day.
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The usual response ensued, but this time it broke me and exasperation won. Skipping the reminder about her health and being able to focus in class,
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not bothering to mention food waste for the millionth time, I simply held up the rejected sandwich and said, all caps,
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Do you know who would have eaten this? Anne Frank. Her little face crumbled, and thus one of my worst slash best parenting stories was born.
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She's in college now, and we both laugh whenever I humbly tell this story. I'm fortunate to have built great relationships with both kids, thus continuing to dismantle the wicked stepmother trope.
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But I do still hate wasting food. Winky emoji. Thanks for everything, R. Wow. Wow.
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I bet it worked. I'm sure it worked. Yeah. And also that was very, yet again, another example of like, you're being very vulnerable
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with your own fuck up. Yeah. We want to hear your fucked up stories because we've told you all of ours.
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Yeah, seriously. You've seen every fuck up. You've heard every fuck up. We've done it.
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We've done it. We've given it to you. It's your turn at my favorite murder at Gmail.
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If you want to watch this video. Is that it? No. Oh. I thought that was it. We got one last one and it's asshole older sister stories.
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Yay. Hi, ladies. On Minnesota episode 406, you asked for older sister stories, and I'm here to deliver.
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My sister is five years younger than me and has always been very gullible. Here are a few of my favorite older sister moments.
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When she was about three or four, I told her that our mom did not carry or give birth to her.
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Instead, she found a giant egg in a Dollar General dumpster and hatched her from it.
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I told her that she could never tell our parents she knew this information because it was a huge family secret.
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She cried for days and believed this for years, but eventually told her, that she knew where she came from.
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It's now a running joke in our family, and I still can't believe she thought this was true for so many years.
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She was a child. She was a child. You lied to her. And you're her older sister. She trusted you.
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You hold the reality of the world in your hands. I would also tell her that the ginger served with sushi was ham,
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and she would eat the weird ham every time we ate sushi. I also told her wasabi was pistachio ice cream,
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and she ate the whole chunk of it at once when she was 10. You're mean. Love you and everything you do.
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Stay sexy and keep lying to your younger sisters, Lindsay. No, that's trauma. That is just trauma.
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The first time I ate wasabi, I was just looking at my friend like, what's going to happen?
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It scared the shit out of me. That like sinus clearing feeling. That's insane. Yeah, but like when you don't know, like I had no context of what it was.
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It's radish. So it's like, oh yeah, radish. It has that. But like when you just put it in your mouth and you don't know.
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I thought the back of my head was going to like blow out. It was crazy. All right.
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Okay. Now, please. My favorite murder at Gmail. This is all on video that we're going to put up in the fan cult if you want to watch it.
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Yeah. You want to like just intently stare at each other while we also read? Yeah.
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  • 70
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  • 70
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  • 65
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Episode Highlights

  • Creating New Fears for My Child
    A mother shares a humorous yet poignant story about parenting fears and misunderstandings.
    “Turns out I had successfully made her terrified of all firefighters.”
    @ 03m 10s
    December 02, 2024
  • Delia Berry: Knitting Superstar
    An 83-year-old woman becomes famous for her knitting, creating iconic sweaters for a movie.
    “Delia is Jesus's favorite person.”
    @ 05m 32s
    December 02, 2024
  • Culty Christian Camp Experience
    A listener recounts a bizarre and emotional experience at a Christian summer camp.
    “I winkled my way out of that step and decided I didn't think summer camp was for me anymore.”
    @ 17m 11s
    December 02, 2024
  • A Parenting Story
    A mother shares a humorous yet poignant moment about food waste and parenting.
    “Do you know who would have eaten this?”
    @ 22m 22s
    December 02, 2024
  • Older Sister Lies
    A listener recounts the hilarious lies she told her gullible younger sister.
    “Stay sexy and keep lying to your younger sisters, Lindsay.”
    @ 24m 32s
    December 02, 2024

Episode Quotes

  • Goodbye.
    MFM Minisode 412
  • I mean, fuck it, you know?
    MFM Minisode 412
  • How cool is she, right?
    MFM Minisode 412
  • Wow, Mary, I love that email.
    MFM Minisode 412
  • That's like a really beautiful sentiment.
    MFM Minisode 412
  • Stay sexy and keep lying to your younger sisters, Lindsay.
    MFM Minisode 412

Key Moments

  • Creating New Fears03:10
  • Knitting Superstar05:32
  • Culty Christian Camp17:11
  • Uneaten Sandwich22:00
  • Parenting Breakdown22:10
  • Sisterly Lies23:31
  • Wasabi Confusion24:44
  • Sign-off25:18

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