The chapter recounts the speaker's experience of receiving a call about a tragic accident involving a family that drove off a cliff in California. They share their involvement in the story and their visit to the aunt of the children. The speaker also discusses their interest in the case and the rarity of reporting on the child welfare system at that time.
Roxanna Asgarian is the author of We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America.
“Every once in a while, I'll have someone just freak out at me. And it keeps you honest, in a way, because they don't owe you anything. People don't owe you anything as a journalist. ... But everyone reacts to trauma differently and some people really do want to talk about it. And I think the families in this book really wanted to talk about it and it felt like no one was even paying attention to them.”
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