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    Mary Reed and Emma McMahon "He tried to shoot your head through me." Nick Hodges and Charlotte Wheelock "I remember sleeping in the car while you were in the emergency room." Carole Smiley with Seth and Octavius Smiley-Humphries "I thought that this was going to be a recipe for disaster." Akiva Johnson and Henry Jimenez "It’s hard to leave everything you know." Chloe Longfellow "It’s surprising the life lessons you can learn in a kitchen if you have the right teacher." Paul Nilsen and Tom Graziano "He was one of the first children in the state of Illinois to be diagnosed as HIV positive." Claudia Anton and Diana Keough "The fact is that he couldn’t be who he wanted to be back then." Carol Miller and Marge Klindera "We like to say we kinda deal with turkey trauma." James Kennicott and Kara Masteller "Just roll with it." Teresa Valko "I've essentially lost my mother, although she's still living."
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      StoryCorps’ 15 Favorites of 2015

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