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Roxanna Asgarian is the author of We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America.\n\u201cEvery once in a while, I'll have someone just freak out at me. And it keeps you honest, in a way, because they don't owe you anything. People don't owe you anything as a journalist. ... But everyone reacts to trauma differently and some people really do want to talk about it. And I think the families in this book really wanted to talk about it and it felt like no one was even paying attention to them.\u201d\nShow notes:\n\n@strawburriez\n\nAsgarian's\xa0Texas Tribune\xa0archive\n\n\nWe Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America\xa0(Farrar, Straus and Giroux \u2022 2023)\n\n12:00\xa0"Child in viral Portland police hug photo missing, 5 family members dead after California cliff crash"\xa0(Shane Dixon Kavanaugh \u2022 The Oregonian \u2022 Mar 2018)\n\n12:00\xa0"Devonte Hart family crash: Sarah Hart sent alarming 3 a.m. text to friend ... then silence"\xa0(Shane Dixon Kavanaugh \u2022 The Oregonian \u2022 Apr 2018)\n\n13:00\xa0"Devonte Hart family crash: 'It's just devastating,' says aunt who fought for custody"\xa0(Roxanna Asgarian and Shane Dixon Kavanaugh \u2022 The Oregonian \u2022 Apr 2018)\n\n34:00\xa0"Devonte Hart's biological mom: They gave my kids 'to monsters'"\xa0(The Oregonian \u2022 Apr 2018)\n\n45:00\xa0"Before Children\u2019s Grisly Deaths, A Family Fought for Them and Lost"\xa0(The Appeal \u2022 Jul 2018)\n\n45:00\xa0"A Mother Grapples with an Adoption that Led to Deaths"\xa0(The Appeal \u2022 Feb 2019)\n\n45:00\xa0"His siblings were killed by their adoptive mother. He was left in foster care to suffer a more common fate."\xa0(Washington Post \u2022 Dec 2019)\n\n46:00\xa0Broken Harts\xa0(Glamour and HowStuffWorks \u2022 2018)\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices