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  • “Everybody would come to the house to see my mama...”

    Penelope Simmons remembers her mother, Cora Lee "Sug" Collins, in an interview with her daughter Suzanne Wayne.

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    Recorded in Bellefonte, PA

  • “I just fell in love with her right there.”

    Jim Fletcher remembers meeting his wife, MaryAnn, in first grade.

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    Recorded in Atlanta, GA

  • “I've lived with this for so long.”

    Chris Whitney tells his friend Erin Kuka about being diagnosed HIV positive early on in the AIDS crisis.

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    Recorded in San Francisco, CA

  • “In my old school, I never went to class.”

    Meliza Arellano tells Sarah Benko, her former seventh-grade teacher, about how she became a serious student.

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    Recorded in New York, NY

  • “Does it bother you to think of home?”

    Sarah Littman interviews her son, Joshua, who has Asperger's syndrome, about his first semester at college. Read more...

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    Recorded in New York, NY

  • “I always have a notecard in my pocket that tells me what the date is.”

    Gweneviere Mann talks to her boyfriend, Yasir Salem, about living without a short-term memory. Her condition results from a stroke she suffered during an operation to remove a brain tumor.

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    Recorded in New York, NY

  • “At the time, I was tutoring at an after-school program...”

    Ayodeji Ogunniyi remembers how the murder of his father led him to a new career. Read more...

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    Recorded in Chicago, IL

  • “The doctors were amazed that he lived as long as he lived...”

    Gloria Del Bianco and her nephew, Lou, remember her father, Luigi Del Bianco, one of the chief stone carvers of Mt. Rushmore.

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    Recorded in New York, NY

  • “The students wouldn't speak to me...”

    A.P. Tureaud Jr. (R) tells his friend Steven Walkley (L) about becoming the first African-American undergraduate at Louisiana State University in 1953.

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    Recorded in New York, NY

  • “Thomas woke me up and said that something was really wrong.”

    Mary Morris remembers her husband, Thomas, one of two Washington D.C. postal workers who died from exposure to anthrax in October, 2001.

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    Recorded in Beach Park, IL

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