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Chris Sullivan

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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That Was Us
Laurel's Story | "Birth Mother" with Writer Kay Oyegun (506)

I'm glad that he doesn't have to deal with this woman as a mother, et cetera.

That Was Us
Laurel's Story | "Birth Mother" with Writer Kay Oyegun (506)

Like the sort of, what you were saying?

That Was Us
Laurel's Story | "Birth Mother" with Writer Kay Oyegun (506)

Self-pity, shame.

That Was Us
Laurel's Story | "Birth Mother" with Writer Kay Oyegun (506)

there's the pity but like the idea like the conclusions that we automatically jump to about who someone is because what they are going through at the present right right we feel like they've always been yeah yeah yeah yeah and so she they do take her to jail and then what is the reason why she can't stay even in pittsburgh that ultimately she has to go full yeah yeah yeah the prisons were overcrowded because she was sent to california

That Was Us
Laurel's Story | "Birth Mother" with Writer Kay Oyegun (506)

And so she goes to jail in California.

That Was Us
Laurel's Story | "Birth Mother" with Writer Kay Oyegun (506)

How many years was she?

That Was Us
Laurel's Story | "Birth Mother" with Writer Kay Oyegun (506)

Five years.

That Was Us
Laurel's Story | "Birth Mother" with Writer Kay Oyegun (506)

Five years for like, was it possession?

That Was Us
Laurel's Story | "Birth Mother" with Writer Kay Oyegun (506)

Possession.

That Was Us
Laurel's Story | "Birth Mother" with Writer Kay Oyegun (506)

Five years.

That Was Us
Laurel's Story | "Birth Mother" with Writer Kay Oyegun (506)

Yeah.

That Was Us
Laurel's Story | "Birth Mother" with Writer Kay Oyegun (506)

So then after five years, she's left with like, where do I go?

That Was Us
Laurel's Story | "Birth Mother" with Writer Kay Oyegun (506)

Yeah.

That Was Us
Laurel's Story | "Birth Mother" with Writer Kay Oyegun (506)

Who do I call?

That Was Us
Laurel's Story | "Birth Mother" with Writer Kay Oyegun (506)

And she goes back to her aunt and doesn't even tell her parents.

That Was Us
Laurel's Story | "Birth Mother" with Writer Kay Oyegun (506)

Yeah.

That Was Us
Laurel's Story | "Birth Mother" with Writer Kay Oyegun (506)

You know what I'm saying?

That Was Us
Laurel's Story | "Birth Mother" with Writer Kay Oyegun (506)

And you see her having these conversations with her aunt about like,

That Was Us
Laurel's Story | "Birth Mother" with Writer Kay Oyegun (506)

Like, can I even go find my son?

That Was Us
Laurel's Story | "Birth Mother" with Writer Kay Oyegun (506)

Like I failed, you know, just sort of feeling all kinds of shame, just coding everything.