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Best Kept Secret: Erik's Birth Mother
2m 13s
Erik's birth mother comes to visit his class at JFK High School.
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Video description: This Academy Award-nominated film takes a moving personal story, illuminates it with insight and humor, and makes it universal. In recounting her attempts to come to terms with her mother's advancing Alzheimer's disease, Deborah Hoffmann explores the relationship between mother and daughter, parent and child, and the tenacity of love.
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