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Podcast: I Woke Up This Gay
Episode: 10.2 That Crazy Foreign Woman, Part 2
Description: As you may have noticed I rewrote and recorded this episode about my mum, but now its twice as long as it was before. I've divided it into two episodes, 10.1 and 10.2. I put a great deal of love into rewriting these two episodes about my mum and intentionally recorded them on my birthday. When the Mormons in Utah saw the way my Russian Mother was raising me they rolled their eyes and called her "That Crazy Foreign Woman." Born Veronika Aleksandrovna Shchipnova to Russian parents in British Columbia. Mum met my father, converted to Mormonism and moved t...