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b'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'