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Like most young children, Jennifer Mascia fully trusted her parents, accepting whatever they told her as truth. When the F.B.I. arrested her father when she was 5, Ms. Mascia began to question her parents’ past.

On this week’s Modern Love podcast, Ruth Wilson reads “Never Tell Our Business to Strangers,” Ms. Mascia’s moving essay exploring the limits of familial loyalty, love and identity.