'She Was The Adult I Needed Growing Up': Remembering A Great-Aunt's Enduring Love
Tina Dietz spent her childhood in a troubled home. Her great-aunt Shirley changed her life and provided solace through love and validation.
by Josh Axelrod
Jun 28, 2019
2 minutes
Tina Dietz grew up in North Dakota, in the sleepy, rural town of Mandan. But to her, it felt like a battle zone.
"I thought parents screamed at each other all the time," Dietz, now 38, tells her partner Patrick Conteh, in a 2018 StoryCorps interview. "I didn't know
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