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Podcast: Other Voices
Episode: Carol Caloro, memoirist, on abusive childhood and a father's love
Description: “Love is not made of DNA,” Carol Caloro writes in her memoir, “My Father’s Daughter.” She speaks with reverence of her kind and loving father and of the difficulties of living with an emotionally abusive mother. Caloro often served as a stand-in mother for her five younger siblings. Her book has many Norman Rockwell-like moments of growing up just after World War II in a small town on the Hudson River. But it ends with a bang. In her 70s, while doing research through Ancestry.com, Caloro discovered the man who loved and raised her, since deceased, was not her biolog...