For all the NPR followers you are familiar with Story Corps, which airs Friday mornings. Most of us catch it in the twilight of sleep, some of us are wide awake and listen during our morning routines. In most cases I listened to it just before rising for the last work day of the week.
This past summer Story Corps traveled to Levine Children's Hospital for a recording session and we were invited to put "down some tracks" about our family. We accepted and found it to be both rewarding and heart wrenching. But to our surprise several weeks ago our "administrator" blogged about us on the website. She wrote about parent's struggles as they watched their children suffer through painful illnesses, treatments and for many it was about the death of their child. She went on to reference one that touched her heart. It was about Joe and our family, the "infamous dinners" that only family and friends know of, and remembering our happiest moments. After an hour of tears, and laughter, we propped ourselves up for a picture, then a hug for each other and feeling good that our story will be archived in the Library of Congress.
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