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Unpacking ‘The Secret Life of Secrets’

In a new book, Michael Slepian considers the costs of keeping quiet.

    • Hiding secrets is the easy part; the hard part is everything else.
    • Hiding secrets is the easy part; the hard part is everything else. Pixabay
    Published Sat, Jun 11, 2022 · 05:50 AM

    Elisabeth Egan

    MICHAEL Slepian had just finished presenting the results of his research on secrets at Columbia University when he glanced at his phone and realised he’d missed two calls from his father.

    The behavioral scientist was about to learn something his parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles had known for his entire life: that he had been conceived by artificial insemination from an anonymous sperm donor.

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