• “My coworker sent you that email by mistake.”

    Rachel Salazar and her husband, Ruben, remember how their romance started with a typo. Read more...

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    Recorded in Waco, TX

  • “It was Christine's first trip in an airplane.”

    Lee Hanson and his wife, Eunice, talk about losing three family members who were aboard United Airlines Flight 175 during the September 11 attacks.

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    Recorded in New York, NY

  • “All of my friends know me to be outspoken...”

    William Anthony Cobb tells his mother, Mary, about the influence she had on him. William Anthony also talks with his sister, Valerie Foster, about their mother.

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    Recorded in New York, NY

  • “I called his name into the phone over and over...”

    Beverly Eckert remembers her husband, Sean Rooney, who died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

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    Recorded in New York, NY

  • “The next day, the police car pulled up and they said, 'We're taking y'all to jail.'”

    James Hanover Thompson (L) tells his brother Dwight (R) about his involvement in the "Kissing Case" of 1958. Read more...

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    Recorded in Wilmington, NC

  • “The doctor told my parents that I was hopelessly insane.”

    Jon Brock tells his daughter Glenny Brock about being committed to Bryce Hospital, Alabama's oldest psychiatric facility, in 1965.

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    Recorded in Birmingham, AL

  • “I was scared to death.”

    Steven Wells tells his daughter, Jennifer, how it felt to become a dad.

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    Recorded in Macon, GA

  • “I wasn't like other kids.”

    Nineteen-year-old Noe Rueda (R) talks to his high school economics teacher, Alex Fernandez (L), about growing up poor in Chicago. Read more...

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    Recorded in Madison, WI

  • “I had a position at a senior citizen facility...”

    John Klein remembers meeting the love of his life, Mary Ann Allen, with her daughter Bernice Flournoy.

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    Recorded in Oakland, CA

  • “There was no doubt in my mind, I was going to work along side of my dad, my granddad, my uncles.”

    Retired teacher George Lengel remembers growing up in the company town of Roebling, NJ. Read more...

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    Recorded in Trenton, NJ