On this episode of Our American Stories, when Lorna Jean sat down for her first Christmas dinner without her father, she tried to hold on to every tradition her family had built over the years. Only when she set turnips in front of her mother did an unexpected confession rise to the surface, revealing a tender truth about love, marriage, and the quiet ways families carry their stories.

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