StoryCorps Salt Lake City – Week 42

Laura Kemp (L) with her daughter Kristy Buffington (R)

Laura Kemp’s mother left her husband and four children when Laura (L) was 7 years old.  Now 63 and living in Twin Falls, Idaho, Kemp tells her daughter Kristy Buffington (R) how she dealt with the pain of the abandonment through the years, and what it was like to reconnect with her mother later in life.

Produced by KCPW with interviews provided by StoryCorps, a national project of Sound Portraits Productions to record and collect the stories of everyday Americans.

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