• “My mother was the glue to our family...”

    Gwen Richards remembers her mother, Helen, who had Alzheimer's.

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    Recorded in Prairie Village, KS

  • “He told me all these stories about the tooth fairy...”

    Lisa Ray remembers her father, Lenoir Ray.

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    Recorded in Norfolk, VA

  • “My mother would tell me, 'If you don't straighten yourself out, you're going to end up going to Springer.'”

    Larry Hoover tells his granddaughter Anastacia Garcia about his time at The New Mexico Boys' School in Springer, New Mexico.

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    Recorded in Taos, NM

  • “When I first met Antonio he was 270 pounds...”

    Cactus Car Wash owner Frank Lynch (L) talks with his employee and friend, Antonio Douglas (R), about helping him get in shape.

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    Recorded in Atlanta, GA

  • “We used to call her pigeon because she was small...”

    Anita Korsonsky (R) remembers her sister, Jeanette Lafond Menichino, who died at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, in an interview with their mother, Dina Lafond (L).

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    Recorded in New York, NY

  • “The door slid aside and there she stood -- the prettiest girl I had ever seen.”

    93-year-old Paul Wilson tells his daughter Marty Smith about meeting her mother at the building where he worked in the early 1940s.

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    Recorded in Wichita, KS

  • “My maternal grandfather, Rocco Galasso, was a superintendent in an apartment building...”

    Nicholas Petron remembers his grandfather, who came to the U.S. from Italy as a young man.

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    Recorded in New York, NY

  • “I learned from her, and that's why I can pass it on to you guys.”

    Richard Anthony Torres talks to his daughter Kathy Namba about his mother, Guadalupe Torres.

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    Recorded in Taos, NM

  • “People will make fun of her in school...”

    Debbie Watterson talks with her 10-year-old son, Mitchel, about being an older brother to his sister, Bridget, who is deaf.

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    Recorded in Atascadero, CA

  • “I knew the top ten on the radio and I could do my nails, but I didn't even know how to cook.”

    Lucille Mascarenas tells her son, Victor, about what happened when she moved from the city to work on her husband's family farm.

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    Recorded in Taos, NM