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July 3, 2009 · Bob Heft, who sewed the 50-state flag as a high schooler, received a B- for his project. Heft's history teacher accused him of not knowing how many states were in the union at the time. The teacher changed the grade when the design was accepted by Congress.
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June 26, 2009 · Roy Wilbur learned how to grieve for his father with the help of the 3-month-old granddaughter of his longtime partner.
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June 19, 2009 · Single dad Brian Miller adopted Johnathan Emerson when he was 7. The young boy had been abused and suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder. It took some time for both father and son to adjust to their new reality, and now they can't imagine their lives any other way.
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June 12, 2009 · Dottie Copeland found out she had cancer and decided to fight it — literally. She prepared for battle like Sylvester Stallone in Rocky. Ten years later, her cancer is still down for the count.
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June 5, 2009 · Six decades ago, she was the "funny-looking broad" he hired to work as a cashier. When Marcia and Seymour Gottlieb tell the story of how they met, it sounds like a beautifully crafted comedy routine.
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May 29, 2009 · Nine-year-old Griselda Lemus and her mom, Sgt. Papsy Lemus, talk about what their lives were like during the 13 months they spent apart while Papsy served in Iraq.
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May 22, 2009 · After his son was killed in Iraq four years ago, Allen Hoe decided to spend Memorial Day at the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C. He was not expecting to meet the nurse who tried to save his son's life.
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May 15, 2009 · Robert Strozier tells a former student the tale of his fearless brother Frank, who came to his defense 70 years ago. "Frank was just a wonderful big brother," Strozier says.
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May 8, 2009 · Deborah Dimasi met her biological mother for the first time 12 years ago, almost three decades after she was placed for for adoption. Dimasi tells Sue Adam that when she describes their relationship, "I say that you're more like a mentor than a mother."
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May 1, 2009 · Johnny Bradley grew up in Georgia working another man's land. Now he owns his own farm and tells his daughter what he took away from that experience as a sharecropper's son.
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April 24, 2009 · Marvin Goldstein was a toddler in 1945 when he fell out of a window five stories up in Brooklyn, N.Y. Fortunately for him, Sal Mauriello was there. Goldstein tells the story of Mauriello's great catch — and their reunion years later — to his son, Eric.
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April 17, 2009 · Two former students of Michigan's Bath School remember a deadly bombing and its aftermath. The school's caretaker planted a bomb in the school, killing 38 children and injuring many others.
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April 10, 2009 · Nancy Wright acknowledges that stubbornness is "kind of a family trait." Her mother, Frances, could be stubborn — and overly critical. A few months after Frances' death, Nancy told her son J.D. about how her relationship with her mother had changed over the years.
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April 3, 2009 · When Gus Hernandez and his family were evicted from their home, they sought shelter at Siddiqi Hansoti's El Dorado Motel in Salinas, Calif. What was meant to be a temporary stay for Hernandez became a new job, and a friendship as well.
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March 27, 2009 · Historian John Hope Franklin, who died this week at 94, both chronicled and lived through racism in America. One of those firsthand experiences with racism came when he was a 12-year-old boy in Tulsa, Okla., in the 1920s.
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