The Boy I Buried | A Podcast Memoir

Episode Three begins with a poem about rooms, memory and the ghosts that continue to live inside them. From there, Jaime reflects on his childhood bond with his mother, his fascination with transformation, and the growing realization that he was different in ways that frightened the adults around him. Set against the backdrop of communal fear surrounding homosexuality, Exile and My Mother’s Arms explores identity, shame, belonging and the cost of growing up without the language to understand yourself. The episode ends with a childhood experience that would shape the course of Jaime’s life for decades to come. To find out more behind the story. Go to www.theboyiburied.com for info on Jaime, his story, and more. 

In Episode Two, Jaime returns to a childhood memory that should have ended very differently, a moment on the side of a highway that he still cannot fully explain. From there the story moves to the Missouri farm where childhood wonder slowly gave way to isolation, longing and exile.   Between forests, Phantom of the Opera cassette tapes and an endless ache for home, Jaime begins discovering that even beautiful places can become prisons when experienced alone. To find out more behind the story. Go to www.theboyiburied.com for info on Jaime, his story, and more. 

The Boy I Buried is a memoir podcast by Jaime Prater told entirely in his own voice. Through immersive narration, sound, memory and confession, Jaime retraces his childhood growing up inside Jesus People USA, an intentional religious community on Chicago’s north side. What begins as memories of a room called 317 slowly unfolds into something larger: a story of confinement, identity, grief, music, longing and the search for home after losing it. This is not simply a story about the past. It is an attempt to understand the boy left behind and whether we ever truly stop carrying the rooms that made us. Sound clips are from No Place to Call Home, Uptown Christian Soldiers and Jesus People, by David Adams from Pyramid Films.  To find out more behind the story. Go to www.theboyiburied.com for info on Jaime, his story, and more.