One day I was with my mother's partner at the time.

We were in the car and like a rolling stone came on and he said to me, there's a line in there about your mother, And I said what I mean?

It was just inconceivable.

It was like he was telling me your mother knew Shakespeare.

It was one of those stories that made and refused sense at the same time.

And I knew that something was missing, and I was also scared of knowing more.

I was scared of wanting to believe it.

I was scared of knowing something that would be a completely different story of my life.

That's Sam Susman on a moment he discovers the possible identity of his father, Bob Dylan.

And you know, I think, like many parents, my mother use the car ride and a captive audience to have difficult conversation.

And she brought him up, and it was really the first time that, unprodded, she spoke to me about their relationship and about meeting him.

She talked to me about how she'd met him in nineteen seventy four, and at a certain point I said, did you ever see him again?

And she said yes, And she told me that they had been in touch again much later on, including the year before I was born.

I'm Danny Shapiro and Welcome to the thirteenth season of Family Secrets.

It never ceases to amaze and inspire me the courage and tenacity of our guests, those who disrupt and rewrite long lines of secrecy.

Thank you to those brave storytellers, and to you, my Family Secrets family, for always listening with curiosity, empathy, and support.

I can't wait to share ten new, extraordinary episodes with you.

Stories of identities lost and found, truths buried and revealed, and always the pervasive weight of secrets and the liberation that comes from speaking our truth.

Welcome to season thirteen, which drops on Thursday, November thirteenth.

Here's Kate Price speaking on the unspeakable.

What I really held on to particularly was being taken out in the middle of the night.

It was more how I felt the next day I would be sore.

I knew something had happened to me in the middle of the night, but once I got in the truck, I couldn't hold on to what had happened, and my father would often inject me with something.

I've never figured out what it was, but he would make me drink a liquid or I would wake up to the cold feeling of alcohol being wrapped on my right arm and then being injected.

And Aril's statuel on his myriad selves in search of authenticity.

Often what I would do if I didn't feel.

Like I was being accepted is that you kind of shoes an identity that other people can't have.

And so I remember that summer and deciding that I needed to start fresh, and I showed up the school and it worked well for as long as it worked.

I came in with skater shoes and the hair, and the big thing was changing my name for Ariel to ari.

I thought that could camouflage me.

And I also thought that taking my dad's last name, Yeshiaghu and taking my mom's last name Statchel would given space to be I wanted to be, or whoever I wanted to create myself to be.

And so it worked until obviously it didn't.

I hope you'll join me and my astonishing guests for this new season of Family Secrets, coming Thursday, November thirteenth, and available wherever you get your podcasts.