Dec 1, 2023
Our story opens in the Baton Rouge home of author Jeremy White and his wife, Edie. He describes her seeing a picture of her biological father for the first time.
Jeremy then reveals to listeners how he walked away from two decades of satire and football officiating to focus on his first book, The Little Girl at the Bottom of the Picture: A Journey of Selfless Discovery. He also explains why, when our story’s reluctant hero decided to lead this emotionally daunting adventure, he vowed to be by Edie’s side in what would become their beautiful journey.
The opening chapter then tells how the future Marine Corps officer candidate and Naval Reservist met at LSU in 1991. Listeners also learn about Edie’s loving adopted family, the O’Neals of Maringouin, Louisiana. Unlike Jeremy’s late father-in-law, the town doctor who didn’t want his two adopted children learning about their origins, his mother-in-law, Ducky, is ready to break HIPAA standards to help Edie find her birth mother, once she opts to put herself "out there" on AncestryDNA. Jeremy notes the irreversibility of submitting one’s DNA—which Edie does solely for the benefit of an unknown woman—and the perils that accompany such a decision, before preparing listeners for "the greatest, most surreal, transformational experience of our lives."
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Audio editing and production by Michael Thibodeaux and the Rep Cap team