Category: Friendship

“I really, at first, didn't want to pick the parents...”

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Stacy Cooper (L) to Karen Smith (R), who is raising Stacy's biological daughter in an open adoption.

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Recorded in Hartford, CT.

“He said, 'Well, Judge, I'm disappointed in you...'”

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Judge Joe Pigott tells his wife, Lorraine, about Willie Earl "Pip" Dow, a man he sentenced many times.

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Recorded in Jackson, MS.

“You're the kind of person that we want our child to grow into...”

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Cathy Resmer to her friend Jules Fishelman.

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Recorded in Burlington, VT.

“There was a lot more to me than you might imagine.”

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Edwin Lanier Jr., who is homeless, to his friend David Wright.

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Recorded in Durham, NC.

“My first memory of you was at camp when we were 12...”

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May Herlands to her friend of 59 years, Sheila Lepelstat.

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Recorded in New York, NY.

“We're like the Mutt and Jeff of the painting world; I'm a big girl, and you're just a little slip of a thing.”

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Catherine Combs to her friend and business partner, Anne Garde.

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Recorded in Missoula, MT.

“I spend more time with Clarice than I do with my own family.”

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Veteran Grand Central Terminal ticket clerk Mike DeMeo to his colleague Clarice Brewer.

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Recorded in New York, NY.

“Don't ever let anybody tell you they can do something to you. You're free, man. You don't have to take that.”

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Ralph Tremonte and Donald Weiss, who spent their childhoods together in a psychiatric hospital, reunite after 40 years.

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Recorded in New York, NY.

“He went somewhere; you could see it. And there was no pain. There's a quiet dignity in there.”

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Jesus Melendez telling Frank Perez about poet Pedro Pietri's final moments in an air ambulance.

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Recorded in New York, NY. Click here for more from Historias.

“He was tough on the outside—big, big, soft guy on the inside.”

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Bob Carberry (L) and John Cullen (R) remember their fellow firefighter, Lieutenant Steven Bates, who died on September 11, 2001.

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Recorded in New York, NY.  

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