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Title: Gretchen Peters: Personal Pain As Universal Truth
Post by: Shana A on February 20, 2012, 07:26:44 AM
Post by: Shana A on February 20, 2012, 07:26:44 AM
Gretchen Peters: Personal Pain As Universal Truth
by NPR Staff
All Things Considered
February 19, 2012
http://www.npr.org/2012/02/19/146942588/gretchen-peters-personal-pain-as-universal-truth (http://www.npr.org/2012/02/19/146942588/gretchen-peters-personal-pain-as-universal-truth)
Country Music Award winner Gretchen Peters had an eventful 2010: The BP oil spill washed up on her doorstep, a good friend committed suicide, and her son announced that he's transgender. The last of those in particular, she says, got her thinking about personal conflict.
"[My son] had withheld a very basic and large truth about himself for a long, long time," Peters says. "And I thought, what's the difference here — except a difference of degree — between him and anyone else? I think all of us withhold truths about ourselves that we think would make other people like us less, or accept us less."
transcript
http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=146942588 (http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=146942588)
by NPR Staff
All Things Considered
February 19, 2012
http://www.npr.org/2012/02/19/146942588/gretchen-peters-personal-pain-as-universal-truth (http://www.npr.org/2012/02/19/146942588/gretchen-peters-personal-pain-as-universal-truth)
Country Music Award winner Gretchen Peters had an eventful 2010: The BP oil spill washed up on her doorstep, a good friend committed suicide, and her son announced that he's transgender. The last of those in particular, she says, got her thinking about personal conflict.
"[My son] had withheld a very basic and large truth about himself for a long, long time," Peters says. "And I thought, what's the difference here — except a difference of degree — between him and anyone else? I think all of us withhold truths about ourselves that we think would make other people like us less, or accept us less."
transcript
http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=146942588 (http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=146942588)