Ep. - 1733 - SATURDAY SERIES: TOM BROSS

Tom Bross, author of the three-part memoir series Don't Call Me Jupiter: Memoir of a Reluctant Hippie Kid—Tightrope, Lightning Crashes, and Wheel in the Sky—joins Kate to discuss growing up in a family that traded a conventional Midwestern life for California's hippie counterculture. He shares how his mother's pursuit of freedom left her five children navigating instability and abandonment, why school became his refuge, and how he found his own path. Tom also discusses taking in his nephews after his sister's death, the heartbreaking decision to pursue an open adoption, and learning to love his mother without excusing the pain she caused.

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