Family Secrets

Madeleine Albright’s Prague Winter Reveals Family Secrets (EXCERPT)

| | Posted 04.30.2012

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What does it feel like to be told your entire perception of your family and your childhood was wrong? Madeleine Albright, former U.S. secretary of sta...

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Divorcing Your Family

Ken Solin | Posted 05.28.2012

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Ken Solin

There are too many folks who still suffer the fallout from dysfunctional families. I hope to encourage them to make the choice not to continue suffering.

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Family Secrets: The Mystery My Mother Left Behind

Lev Raphael | Posted 04.27.2012

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Lev Raphael

Going through her things after the funeral, I found something shocking: My mother had kept the concentration camp uniform she was wearing when she was liberated by the Americans in 1945.

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What My Son's Terrifying Diagnosis Revealed About Our Family Secrets

Victoria Costello | Posted 04.15.2012

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Victoria Costello

That's the tricky part about family secrets. Their contents don't have to be secret at all; as long as everyone agrees not to see or speak about what's actually hiding in plain sight -- like Grandpa's likely suicide.

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Shaken To The Core: Oprah's Surprise Sister -- And Mine

Eileen Flanagan | Posted 11.17.2011

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Eileen Flanagan

Two years after my father's death, I discovered that he had been divorced before marrying my mother. Under questioning, my mother revealed that he had a daughter, who was about 10 years older than me.

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Secrets Of The Chicago Outfit: Mobster's Family Portrait Hid Guns, Cash, Jewelry, Recordings

AP | DON BABWIN | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — Nearly $730,000 in cash, about 1,000 pieces of jewelry and loaded handguns found hidden alongside recording devices in a mobster's sub...

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Mob Hitman Frank Calabrese Sr. Gets Life In Prison

AP | MIKE ROBINSON | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — Reputed mob boss Frank Calabrese Sr., one of five men convicted at Chicago's biggest underworld trial in decades, was sentenced to lif...

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