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I think it is, you know, a little different, especially for fathers today than 30 years ago.

You know, it's funny.

I think back now and my mother and I are both incredibly similar and very different.

So she had, like, over-the-top style and glamour, you know?

And I think in some ways it was a reaction to the austerity and the control of growing up in a communist country and then Czechoslovakia.

Like, nobody was going to tell her what to do.

Nobody was going to tell her what to say.

So she actually would make my father look...

PC.

And it was hysterical.

I mean, I spent much of my childhood being like, oh, mom, please stop.

You know, it was really interesting.

I feel like today, because my mother passed away unexpectedly from a fall a few years ago, they were just like, I had a lot of questions.

And I really dug into her story and her history and

and really studied her almost in a way that I wish I had done when she was living and I could speak to her directly.

And I think I understand her, A, because I'm at a level of maturity and I have some of the same issues, you know, having young children.

And I think I understand her, though, better today than I did in some ways in her life.

Like, I see her more fully.

She wrote a book in the final years of her life that talked a lot more about her childhood.

And I think not uncommon.