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A mother and son remember a frightening accident and the resulting kindness

Friday, April 12, 2024

Karina Borgia-Lacroix was in a StoryCorps booth in Fort Myers, Fla., last month with her 10-year-old son, Levi, when he asked her, "What is your favorite memory of me?"

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'The wolf was his best friend,' a son remembers his father who served in WWII

Friday, April 05, 2024

Growing up in 1950s St. Louis, Judd Esty-Kendall remembers his father taking in wild animals. He told his own son about a special bond that his dad had with one animal in particular.

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A mother and daughter in San Antonio, Texas, talk about the end of life

Friday, January 19, 2024

Conchetta Brown, 66, has Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, or COPD, and she uses oxygen to help her breath. She talks to her daughter Nidera about looking ahead to life after death.

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After decades of silence, family speaks publicly about Joe Kahahawai's murder

Friday, January 05, 2024

Two sisters discuss a harrowing and dark incident in their family history. Kim Farrant and Joy Kahahawai-Welch remember their uncle, and how the family has kept his name and legacy alive.

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A mother and son come back to StoryCorps for a final interview

Friday, November 17, 2023

Jackie and Scott Miller, a mother and son, first came to StoryCorps in 2008, and Jackie revealed a secret. Jackie is now 88, and her health is declining. They came back for one more conversation.

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A Colorado single mom was already struggling — then she was hit by lightning

Friday, October 20, 2023

In 2014, Donna Salemink was solo parenting her two teenagers and often struggled to make ends meet. She came to StoryCorps with her daughter Melissa to remember the moment that changed their lives.

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An Oklahoma woman finds healing in her Chickasaw roots

Friday, October 13, 2023

Shelby Rowe, a Chickasaw woman in Oklahoma City, describes how her connection to culture helped her heal from life challenges. She became a mom at 18 — followed by three difficult marriages.

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How a Mexican mother navigated raising mixed-race children in the U.S.

Friday, August 04, 2023

Luz Kenyon grew up in Mexico City, and in the mid 1980s she took a trip to New York City and fell in love with a Jamaican traffic agent. She talks to her daughter about being a mixed-race family.

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A woman remembers visiting her grandmother, a member of the Shoshone Nation in Utah

Friday, June 09, 2023

Growing up in the 1950s, Gwen Timbimboo Davis, a Native American, spent most summers visiting the reservation where her grandmother lived. She talks to her daughter about her memories.

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A man saves a stranger's life during a historic flash flood

Friday, April 07, 2023

In this week's StoryCorps, Zack Stephney talks to Melissa Brooks — he rescued her from a flash flood in Georgia in 2009.

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A father and daughter recount a particularly memorable driving lesson

Friday, February 17, 2023

Some people may not be meant to drive, and Maritza Bell might be in that group. Danny Bell, her husband, and their daughter Sydia, went to a StoryCorps booth to remember Maritza's final lesson.

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2 daughters reflect on a secret their dad shared nearly 20 years ago

Friday, February 10, 2023

David Hedison came to a StoryCorps booth years ago with his daughter Serena and revealed he got a nose job to be an actor. Serena and her sister Alex came back to StoryCorps to reflect on the secret.

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A man reflects on his six decade long marriage after his wife's passing

Friday, November 04, 2022

A husband remembers his wife and their 62 years together.

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Siblings forged an unbreakable bond after leprosy tore apart their family

Friday, October 28, 2022

The Hawaiian island of Molokai was once the site of America's largest leprosy colony. A brother and sister in Hawaii discuss how their lives were shaped by leprosy, also known as Hansen's disease.

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How an ice cream truck became a core memory for these two sisters

Friday, September 02, 2022

On StoryCorps, two sisters growing up in an Ohio farmhouse get a visit from an ice cream truck.

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A grandfather inspires his grandson to live full of honesty and love

Friday, July 22, 2022

When Jeffrey Perri was nine, his grandfather Tony Perri came out to him as gay. Later, Jeffrey also came out. What was already a close relationship became something more meaningful for both of them.

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Hospice worker excelled at caregiving after being inspired by his grandmother

Friday, May 13, 2022

Hajime Koyama, who goes by Issan, is a retired hospice worker. He came to StoryCorps to remember his grandmother who shaped is understanding of grief and inspired him to care for those who are dying.

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2 sisters reminisce about the family's laundry business in Hollywood

Friday, March 25, 2022

Suzi and Donna Wong grew up just minutes from the big movie studios, but a world away. Their dad moved to the U.S. from China and opened a laundry business on Melrose Avenue in 1949.

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A granddaughter passes on the legacy of 'Granny Hayden,' a midwife born into slavery

Friday, February 18, 2022

"If somebody needed help — Granny was going. Black and whites alike, it made no difference to her," Mary Othella Burnette says of her late grandmother, a second-generation midwife in Black Appalachia.

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A family helped a Holocaust survivor escape death. Then they became his real family

Friday, January 21, 2022

At 11, Philip Lazowski found himself alone in a Nazi ghetto as Jews were being sent to their deaths during WWII. At StoryCorps, Philip, now 91, remembers a quick decision that may have saved his life.

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