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“I used to always say, ’We have one heart, you and I.’” Sarah Churchill & Yomi Young Shortly after giving birth to her third daughter, doctors told Sarah Churchill that her baby had a rar...

https://storycorps.org/animation/heart-to-heart/

“I never particularly liked you.” Janaki Symon & Melissa Wilbur As kids, siblings Melissa Wilbur and Janaki Symon hated each other. At StoryCorps, the sisters get real about how they felt gro...

https://storycorps.org/animation/then-and-now/

“And to this day, I live my life trying to be half the man my father was.” Dr. William Lynn Weaver & Kimberly Weaver In 1964, Lynn was one of 14 Black students who integrated West High School...

https://storycorps.org/animation/the-family-equation/

“When she was a little kid, she would climb up on the kitchen table and eat sugar out of the sugar bowl, and so they started calling her Sugar.” Penelope Simmons and Suzanne Wayne Affectionat...

https://storycorps.org/animation/mama-sug/

“No matter how cold it was outside, it got warmer when I was in a room with her.” Madzimoyo Owusu & Johannah Owusu Side by side, hand in hand—Madzimoyo Owusu remembers always feeling protec...

https://storycorps.org/animation/grandmas-hands/

“I saved her but Lord, my car.” Danny & Sydia Bell Raised in New York City, Maritza Bell never learned how to drive. Later, her husband Danny tried to teach her. At StoryCorps, Danny and thei...

https://storycorps.org/animation/rules-of-the-road/

“We’re going to move forward. That’s why we comb our hair backwards.” Paul Crowley & Dreamer For decades, Dreamer has been generously offering free haircuts to veterans from a trailer sta...

https://storycorps.org/animation/dreamers-gift/

A musical journey that resolved in harmony. Gilbert Zermeño & Patricia Powers-Zermeño When Gilbert Zermeño dreamed of joining his school band, he pictured himself playing a shiny saxophone. To...

https://storycorps.org/animation/family-harmony/

“You know, it’s strange to get called out by the mother of civil rights.” Reverend Farrell Duncombe Reverend Farrell Duncombe grew up in the 1950s in Montgomery, Alabama. Once a mischievous...

https://storycorps.org/animation/role-models/

“Once you’re in that room, you can’t get out. It’s always with you.” Debra Fisher Debra Fisher’s father Oscar was a Holocaust survivor who kept his painful memories of Auschwitz to hi...

https://storycorps.org/animation/the-room/