Dr. Jody Carrington

And my mom brought out the lemon loaf, which is like the universal sign of death.

You know, like obviously somebody's going down.

And so I'm looking at my brother like, what is happening right now?

And my mom starts to cry.

My dad starts to cry.

And in my head, I'm like, okay, so somebody's dying.

And then my father says to me, your mother and I need to tell you to something that we haven't told anybody in 40 years.

And I was like, what?

i know i mean i talk to my mom every day i talk to my dad every few days like i don't understand what do you mean and so then i'm like obviously dad's gay like what is the other thing that you cannot tell you know this is in my head you know and right at this point i'm i'm i am excited because nobody's dying i'm like that's amazing let's talk about and then he said um he said you have a sister

And everything went quiet.

And I remember, again, even there being relief in that because nobody was dying.

But we just looked at each other and he was like, you have a full biological sister.

Your mother and I got pregnant when, you know, we were in our teens and our late teens.

And we decided that we couldn't tell anybody.

Right.

And they didn't, they were like high school sweethearts.

Okay.

So they, they grew up on farms, like three miles from each other, both very staunch Catholic families, and they didn't want to disappoint their parents.

So they bound my mom's belly.

She even stood in my aunt's wedding party at six months pregnant and nobody knew.