Episode 11: You've Got the Music in You

Paint the Sun: A Boy's Journey by Chris Kursel

Episode notes

In this episode, Chris looks back on being sixteen in the late ’90s as the reality of Joel’s illness unfolds. Music, friendships, teenage routines, and small acts of rebellion play out alongside hospital visits, radiation treatments and the disorienting collapse of his father’s life. As memory, grief and nostalgia blur together, he tries to make sense of a season defined by all that went unsaid.

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FathergriefteenagermemorycancerMilwaukeehospital90'sadolescence