248. Not From a Nice Family with Diana Keough

FINE is a 4-Letter Word · Oct 8, 2026 · 37m

In 1988, Diana Keough came home for Christmas for the first time in three years. She was married, she had a six-month-old baby, and she was determined to finally build the kind of relationship with her mother she had watched her friends enjoy. Within weeks, her family learned that her father, a trial attorney and pillar of a fundamentalist Baptist community, had AIDS and had been living a double life for 27 years. Three weeks later, her mother tested positive for HIV.

Diana was trained as a journalist, so she did what journalists do. With her mother's permission, she dropped a tape recorder…