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Born in a now-vanished Los Angeles hospital and handed over at just 24 hours old, Melissa Gilbert grew up believing in a carefully scripted origin story: a Rhodes Scholar father, a prima ballerina mother, careers too important to pause for a baby. The truth was rougher, poorer, and far more human\u2014her birth parents were a struggling dancer and a stock car racer who simply couldn\u2019t afford a seventh child. Even her adoption wasn\u2019t planned; her future mother famously recalled being told, \u201cgo get it,\u201d a phrase that would echo painfully in Melissa\u2019s heart for years.<\/p>\n

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The deepest wound came later. At 11, she was told her adored adoptive father, Paul, died of a stroke. At 45, a detective uncovered the truth: he had died by suicide after unbearable pain. The revelation nearly broke her, but it also remade her. Melissa chose to forgive the lies, honor Paul by championing mental health, and build the open, loving family she never had. Now, on a quiet 14-acre spread in the Catskills with husband Timothy Busfield, eight grandchildren, and the hard-won peace she chronicles in \u201cBack to the Prairie,\u201d she lives the one story no one else scripted for her: her own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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