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03:0269.5K Plays / 434 Likes / 19 Comments
In January 2007, Rachel P. Salazar and Ruben P. Salazar were living 9,000 miles apart and completely unaware of each other's existence. But when an email meant for Rachel accidentally went to Ruben,…
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03:5641.6K Plays / 657 Likes / 27 Comments
John Vigiano Sr. is a retired New York City firefighter whose two sons followed him into service—John Jr. was a firefighter, too, and Joe was a police detective. On September 11, 2001, both Vigiano…
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02:3720.5K Plays / 149 Likes / 6 Comments
When Richie Pecorella met Karen Juday, she captured his heart and changed his life. They were engaged and living together in Brooklyn when Karen was killed in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade…
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03:2914.8K Plays / 138 Likes / 9 Comments
On the morning of September 11th, Michael Trinidad called his ex-wife, Monique Ferrer, from the 103rd floor of the World Trade Center's North Tower to say goodbye. In the wake of his death, Monique…
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03:393,371 Plays / 67 Likes / 2 Comments
Cousins James Ransom and Cherie Johnson recall their fearsome Sunday school teacher, Miss Lizzie Devine, the only woman who had more power than their grandmother. Set in the small Florida town of…
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04:18108K Plays / 824 Likes / 27 Comments
Kay Wang was a strong-willed grandmother who was reluctantly taken to a StoryCorps booth by her son and granddaughter. Though Kay resisted, she still had stories to tell—from disobeying her mother…
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03:391,053 Plays / 11 Likes / 0 Comments
As children cousins Cherie Johnson and James Ransom spent many weekends at their grandparent’s house in Bradenton, Florida. During these visits they attended Sunday school at the local United Methodist…
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02:4552.7K Plays / 335 Likes / 17 Comments
Blanca Alvarez and her husband risked crossing the border to immigrate into the U.S. and then struggled to make ends meet. They hoped to shelter their children from these harsh realities, but Blanca's…
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02:4465.1K Plays / 319 Likes / 15 Comments
The great oral historian Studs Terkel was an inspiration to StoryCorps, and he was also an early participant in the project. In this animated short, he speaks out on what has been lost in modern life…
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02:3154.4K Plays / 258 Likes / 16 Comments
Joseph Robertson was an infantryman in the U.S. Army during World War II, where he fought in the Battle of the Bulge. The stark black and white images in this short haunt the viewer, just as Robertson…
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05:52524K Plays / 1,969 Likes / 93 Comments
Danny Perasa and his wife, Annie, came to StoryCorps to recount their twenty-seven-year romance. As they remember their life together from their first date to Danny’s final days with terminal cancer,…
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StoryCorps encourages Americans to set aside time to record a conversation with an older relative or another family member, a friend, a neighbor, or any person with a story to share. To help people…
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