Laura Kennedy

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254 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 30 Jul

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The Women's Podcast · Best of The Women's Podcast: Grieving an estranged parent · 30 Jul 2026 podcast

And because we didn't have a relationship and he wasn't the kind of person who was sort of capable of a, you know, a deathbed apology or reconnection or, you

even valediction I didn't want to go but I kind of listened to a bunch of people around me who again because of the presumptions they have about how a parent-child relationship works said a lot of things about how I'd regret it and I kind of absorbed that so yeah I went to see him and um it was I think it was among the most kind of horrifying experiences of my life um

And he was, you know, he weighed less than I did.

And I was a little girl at the time.

And it was pretty horrifying.

I'd never seen a living person so thin and so yellow and so dirty.

He was filthy.

And I was kind of battling my.

this impulse between sort of pity and total disgust.

And I felt shame about the disgust because, you know, of the situation that he was in.

And I was kind of attempting to manage all this.

And again, he didn't know who I was.

And, you know, this kind of tiny, festering, moribund person just kind of coughed forth.

The only thing he could say was, get me vodka.

And that was it.

So I just ran out of the room and vomited in the nearest bathroom and left.

And I left in the sort of knowledge that the doctor had told us that he would die within a couple of days.

But he always had a sort of Teflon quality.

Like he drove off bridges and, you know, he'd come out of that with one shoe missing and somehow be fine.

He had a metal shoulder.

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