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Youth Radio: My Father's Borrowed Houses

Calen Robertson, center, and his two brothers at Mt. Bonnell, overlooking Austin, Texas.
Calen Robertson, center, and his two brothers at Mt. Bonnell, overlooking Austin, Texas.

Youth Radio commentator Calen Robertson remembers childhood days during which he stayed with his divorced dad at "borrowed" houses -- a network of friends' homes where he and his brothers could briefly live with their dad in a joint-custody limbo.

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