Laura Mauldin
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 21 Feb
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One of the most important things to me is taking what is so private
It's so hidden behind millions of doors in this country that people need care that the story of Kim and Angel, the story of Ben and Tina, this is not unusual.
And yet, again, we don't talk about it, which perpetuates that same shame that Tina or Angel were exemplifying.
And it perpetuates the isolation of caregivers who are thinking, well, this is just how it is.
This is just my job as a partner or a spouse or an adult child of an aging parent.
Or it doesn't matter what type of caregiver.
Because it's so private.
and so riddled with shame in a lot of ways.
And our expectations of what love can do are basically, well, the state doesn't need to do anything because love should be able to do it all.
And this, I think for me, it was about writing my failure, my love's failure to stand in for an absent system.
That my love was not infrastructure, in fact, and it could not fuel all of the material care that needed doing.
And I want people to know, I want people to know that, that it isn't an individual responsibility.
Or an individual failing.
Or an individual failing, right?
That being the one is a no-win situation, right?
And that disabled people deserve more than having everything about their care and all the possibilities of a good life consolidated onto one person.
That is not fair.
It's not fair to the disabled person, and it's not fair to the person who's the one.
And it's my hope that by being very frank about my own failings and what I hope comes through in the book is an attempt to forgive myself.
20 years later, I'm still trying to forgive myself.
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