After the movie Free Willy became a hit, word got out that the star of the film, a killer, William Keiko, was sick and still living in a tiny pool in a Mexican amusement park.
Fans were outraged.
Kids demanded his release.
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In the New York Times comes the Good Whale, a story about the wildly ambitious science experiment to return Keiko to the ocean.
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From the New York Times, this is the interview.
I'm David Marchese.
There's a poem by Philip Larkin called this Be the Verse, and it's been buzzing around in the back of my mind the entire time I've been working on today's interview.
The poem starts like this, though literary fans will know I'm swapping in a clean word for a foul one.
They mess you up, your mom and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they and add some extra just for you.
That rings true for me.
And I bet I'm not alone.
But what do we do with that knowledge?
For help answering that question, a lot of people have turned to the work of clinical psychologist Lindsay C. Gibson.
Her book Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents has been a slow burning bestseller with over a million copies sold since it was published in 2015.