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3:10 Family secrets and the impact they have
Everyone has secrets. Sometimes they impact us in ways we can't predict. Six years ago, author and podcaster Dani Shapiro discovered one her family had kept from her. A DNA test revealed the man who raised her was not her biological father. She had always felt different, something that led her to become a writer of novels and memoirs that touch on family secrets, memoir and identity long before she knew about her own story. Now she's the host of the podcast "Family Secrets" and she's just written her first novel in 15 years called "Signal Fires". It's about a family with a secret, a lie, that will reverberate over the years and connect two families in unforeseen ways.
