I Am Vindicated and My daughter is No Longer Anyone’s Secret

Carol Burt
9 min readJun 19, 2021
Photo by Mindy Olson P on Unsplash

This is one of those stories that won’t come easy. It’s genuinely one where I’ll have to “sit down and open a vein.” It’s very personal, and maybe I should not speak publicly about it, but I need to, and since I’ve gotten older, I have no desire to hide any part of my life. Because, through it all, I know I did the best I could.

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Carol Burt

Former print journalist, former mayor, retired law enforcement officer. Writing about politics and government along with random personal essays.