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Getting Over SHARE BUTTON Imagine waking up one day to your own personal version of The Matrix in which everything you thought you knew about your family was a lie? Years after Jason Charnick’s parents had died, he pops in a series of videotapes and watch- es his world get turned upside NJ STAGE - ISSUE 58 by Gary Wien down. He hears his dying fa- ther talk about how his mother smuggled drugs into his prison cell for him. He learns that his mother once overdosed in their bathroom, that his grandfather was off the grid for decades be- cause he was an Army deserter, and much more. INDEX NEXT ARTICLE 84