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Kelly Ripais looking back at a relatable parenting moment.
TheLive! With Kelly and Ryanco-host, 51, recalls her daughterLola, now 21, leaving the nest to study music at New York University in an exclusive excerpt from her new book,Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories, which is featured in this week’s issue of PEOPLE.
In July 2021, Ripaannounced the bookwhich features “a collection of personal essays on childhood, motherhood, marriage, her career and the intersection of all the above — putting her thoughtfulness, assertiveness and deep understanding of the dynamics of gender and power on full display,” according to the book’s description.
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Lola told us that she’d see us on Thanksgiving, and not a day before. I told her she was 100 percent correct because we were going out to Long Island for the weekend. So, Mark, Joaquin, Chewie [their dog], and I headed out.
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“Maybe it’s a pigeon or… You don’t think it’s a rat, do you?”
“I don’t know, I’ll turn on the cameras,” Mark said.
“What is it?” I begged. the sound of fear in my throat.
“Lola is throwing a party on our roof! With a group of kids. There are one, two, 10, no 15 kids on our roof! She’s throwing a rager!”
I started screaming, “What happened to ‘I’m not coming home before Thanksgiving’?”
We watched the small night vision footage on Mark’s screen, as I called her cell phone. Then, we watched her pick up her phone, look at the number, and ignore the call. Like the badass, parent-defying, independent, the-force-is-female-warrior woman her mother had raised. Dammit.
Mark jumped up. “I’m driving back to the city.”
source: people.com
