This American Life

     

This American Life2007

This American Life (TAL) is an American weekly hour-long radio program produced in collaboration with Chicago Public Media and hosted by Ira Glass. It is broadcast on numerous public radio stations in the United States and internationally, and is al… more »


Nancy Updike:
Choosing not to become the person your family expected is painful. You have to leave their world completely just to makes sense of your own life. And then fate lures you back whenever it can to give you the chance to measure the distance between their world and yours and see if it's still just as far as you remembered.

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