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StoryCorps Shorts: Going Up
Marty Smith and her father, Paul Wilson, 93, discuss the first time he set eyes on her mother, Wilma. She was an elevator operator in the building where he was working, and he had just been drafted and was about to spend the next three years in the service. They married three days after he returned, and remained together and in love for the next 63 years before her death.
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A deaf Kurdish boy's transformative journey to communicate through learning sign language.

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Exploring the dynamic nexus of humans, animals, and science in a post-pandemic world.

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Two Koli fishermen in Mumbai are driven to desperation by a dying sea, testing their bond.

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Bordertown besties make magic of one last summer together as they face uncertain futures.

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Aspiring social worker faces the uncertainty of life as a blind, undocumented immigrant.

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An intimate look behind the closed doors of the Chinese birth tourism industry in the US.

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An unlikely group of nursing home residents launch a movement during the pandemic.

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A teenage girl escapes a genocide and makes a meteoric rise to Hollywood stardom.

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Uýra is a trans-indigenous artist on a journey of self-discovery in the Amazon forest.