Being a gossip reporter just isn't a respectable job. It'll chew you up and spit you out.
But my family's really close and I was interested in what Mommy and Daddy did for a living. So when Mommy and Daddy had a script that wasn't totally age inappropriate, they would let me read it. And we would talk about it.
The exchange by e-mail is more intimate than conversation - you allow yourself to say things you otherwise wouldn't.

