'We Came A Long Way': After Prison, A New Chance For A Dad And His Daughter
For much of her childhood, Abby Gagliardo's dad, Ralph, was in and out of prison. But Abby, now 17, never understood why — and she was hostile toward him when he finally returned home five years ago.
For much of Abby Gagliardo's childhood, her dad had been in and out of jail and prison. "People would ask me, they'd be like, 'Oh, where's your dad?' " Abby recalls in a StoryCorps conversation recorded last year, when she was 16.
She knew he was incarcerated, but she was never given a clear picture why. "I didn't understand any of it."
When she
