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StoryCorps: Sue Hyde

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Hyde_small Sue Hyde lives in Cambridge, Mass., with her wife, Jade McGleughlin, their daughter, Jesse, 14 and their son, Max, 12. The makeup of their household is not as rare as it once was and certainly not as rare as it was when Hyde was growing up, in a small town in rural Illinois. Asked by her daughter about the differences between their childhoods, Hyde's response is, "I grew up in one of those very typical families, with a mom and a dad. And there were seven kids." The hardest part, Hyde says, was her sense of being alienated from her family, because of the feelings she had for other girls, feelings "that no one else that I knew at that time had."

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Sue Hyde lives in Cambridge, Mass., with her wife, Jade McGleughlin, their daughter, Jesse, 14 and their son, Max, 12. The makeup of their household is not as rare as it once was and certainly not as rare as it was when Hyde was growing up, in a small town in rural Illinois. Asked by her daughter about the differences between their childhoods, Hyde's response is, "I grew up in one of those very typical families, with a mom and a dad. And there were seven kids." The hardest part, Hyde says, was her sense of being alienated from her family, because of the feelings she had for other girls, feelings "that no one else that I knew at that time had."

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Posted on September 30, 2008 at 07:26 AM | Permalink

Review of StoryCorps: Sue Hyde

You are such a inspiration to me.

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JM: What do you think the differences are in the way you grew up and in
the way I grew up?

SH: Hmmm, well, um, I grew up in one of those very typical families,
with a mom and a dad and there were seven kids. We lived in a small town
in rural Illinois. For me, what was, uh, very difficult and painful at
times was to know that I was growing up with feelings about girls that
no one else that I knew at that time had. So it caused me, I think, to
be a little bit alienated from my parents because I didn't know how to
tell them. And when I finally did tell my mother, I was 19 years old.

JM: Wow.

SH: And you know what she said to me?

JM: Hmmm.

SH: She said, "What did we do wrong?"

JM: I think if she knew you now, though, she'd be really proud 'cause
you would have changed your mind too.

SH: (Sniffs) Well, I want to tell you how I did change her mind. My mom
got very sick when I was in my...
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