"What I wanted, what I craved, what I couldn't wait to be a part of was the intimacy," she says. "There is not in my life experience comparable relationships outside of the family frame." She recalls how her brothers would sleep together on their parents' floor and breathe all over each other during hot summer days. 'I loved that we didn't ever get central air conditioning,' Kelly writes.
Writer Kelly Corrigan always wanted a family. She craved the closeness and familiarity of a strong parent-child relationship. When her daughters were little, she relished knowing everything about their lives. But as her daughters grew older, the physical and emotional distance between Kelly and her daughters grew, too. While Kelly knew to expect this transition, it still broke her heart. In this conversation, Maya and Kelly reckon with the question of what parents and children owe each other.
For more on Kelly, check out her podcast, "Kelly Corrigan Wonders" and her PBS show, "Tell Me More."
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