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StoryCorps travels the country collecting the stories of everyday people, who get to take the microphone and interview each other about their lives. Each week, the StoryCorps podcast shares these unscripted conversations, revealing the wisdom, courage, and poetry in the words of people you might not notice walking down the street. Learn more, including how to record your own interview, at storycorps.org.More from StoryCorps »

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Episode 454 - Five Years

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StoryCorps 454: Five Years

It's been five years since the shooting rampage in a Tucson parking lot that killed 6 and wounded 13 — included U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords. In this episode, we hear from two survivors, and look ahead to another anniversary that is coming up.

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StoryCorps #453 - Do Over

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StoryCorps 453: Do-Over

To kick off the New Year... stories of people who have started over, turned the page, and wiped the slate clean. They did this sometimes to follow a dream, other times to escape bad ones.

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StoryCorps 452 - The First Great Listen

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StoryCorps 452: The First Great Listen

We're ending 2015 with a first listen to our Great Thanksgiving Listen. More than 50,000 interviews were recorded through the StoryCorps app, and in this podcast exclusive, we'll hear a selection of them.

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StoryCorps 451 - Holiday Highlights

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StoryCorps 451: Holiday Highlights

We dug into our archive and pulled out three of our favorite holiday stories for this episode.

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StoryCorps 450 - Up To No Good

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StoryCorps 450: Up To No Good

Four stories about getting into mischief as a kid, and how those antics can sometimes follow you into adulthood.

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StoryCorps 449 - Lessons in Love

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StoryCorps 449: Lessons in Love

We look back on the early days of the AIDS epidemic, when little was known about the disease, and just how destructive it would become.

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StoryCorps #448 — Something To Be Thankful For

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StoryCorps 448: Something To Be Thankful For

This Thanksgiving week we hear about three traditions: feeding strangers, feeding your neighbors and listening to those you love.

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StoryCorps 447 — Forget Me Not

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StoryCorps 447: Forget Me Not

Conversations from the StoryCorps Memory Loss Initiative, which gives people with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of memory loss the chance to get their stories down on tape.

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StoryCorps #446 - Too Much Hurt

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StoryCorps 446: Too Much Hurt

It's been 50 years since the United States became officially involved in the Vietnam War. So, this Veterans Day, we're listening to stories from and about men who served in that war, and the battles they fought when they came home.

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StoryCorps 445: Goodnight, Harry

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StoryCorps 445: Goodnight, Harry

We're marking Halloween this year with two stories connected to the holiday. First, we hear how a family escaped a kidnapping 20 years ago. And we'll hear the story behind the Official Houdini Seance, which takes place on Halloween.

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