'SNL' alum Molly Shannon looks back at tragedy in a new memoir : NPR

Shannon's new memoir, Hello, Molly! opens with the car crash that killed her mother and sister when Shannon was 4. She says, for a long time, she was motivated by a desire to make her mom proud.

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