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A daughter reflects on losing her father

“I have so many more questions to ask him.” Mary Claire Whelan’s father Bob died in 2019, after struggling with addiction; he was 62 years old. In this interview with her mother, Terry Suganski, Mary Claire talks about what made her father so special and what it was like to witness his struggle.

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  • Interview Facilitated by: 
  • ǻ Producers: J Holt, Catie Talarski, Meg Fitzgerald
  • Music by: 

Hear the on StoryCorps. This conversation was recorded in 2021.

For more, visit ctpublic.org/storycorpsct.

Meg Fitzgerald is the senior manager of projects and radio programming.
J studied documentary radio at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, in Portland, Maine, and returned to his home state of ǻ to intern with the production team at ǻ. After that, he stuck around.
Catie Talarski is Senior Director of Storytelling and Radio Programming at ǻ.