Robin Bailey

So tell me what you really thought.

Oh yeah, I've told you what I really thought.

Really?

I absolutely was so impressed by it, by you, by your courage, by your honesty, like I said, breathtaking at times, by the pain that you have experienced and the lessons that you yourself have taken from it but that you also impart for others and

The story of Sean dying, which you wrote, conveyed through the notes you were taking at the time, is one of the most beautiful and exquisitely painful things I've ever read.

It's really, you've just given so many people a gift with this book that anyone who has had grief will see that there is, you know, there's a rainbow after the rain.

And I'm really sorry that you've had the pain that you've had in your life, but I'm also really glad that it happened to you because you could bring yourself to it and share it with people.

No, there's no but.

Well, you'll provide the but.

You'll drop that in.

But Robin Bailey, I have to thank you for sharing yourself so profoundly.

Oh, thanks, mate.

There's a kind of honesty in Robin that feels very rare.

She's honest about grief, about love, about the choices she's made, and she's honest about the ones she wishes she hadn't.

And what stays with me from that conversation is not just what she's been through, but how she's made sense of it.

Her memoir is called Flamingos Aren't Born Pink, and it's as honest as this conversation.

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Thank you so much for listening to No Filter.

The executive producer of No Filter is Brie Player.

The assistant producer is Coco Levine.