StoryCorps Then and Now: Love Letters

StoryCorps

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🗓️ 31 October 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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As we continue celebrating StoryCorps' 20th anniversary, we bring you two of our favorite stories that made a strong impression on our listeners, and we share updates with the participants from the last two decades.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Dave I say founder of StoryCore, support for this podcast and the following message
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0:20.4	It's Friday morning.
0:21.4	You're in your car driving to work, stuck in traffic, can't wait for the weekend to
0:25.3	begin.
0:26.3	You're listening to the news on the radio.
0:28.3	It's all bad.
0:29.5	And then you hear this.
0:34.8	Since May 2005, when that music starts on MPR's morning edition, listeners know that
0:40.5	they are about to hear a StoryCore interview.
0:43.4	And that music has created a sort of Pavlovian response in millions of people.
0:48.6	They know they are about to cry.
0:50.9	Yeah, and we've thought a lot about this over the years.
0:53.8	Why does StoryCore make you cry?
0:56.2	I think there are a bunch of reasons, but a big one is that one of the things that StoryCore
1:00.7	does is it connects people.
1:03.1	And that happens in the booth between the two people having the conversation.
1:06.9	But it also connects those people with us, the ones who get to listen to that conversation.
1:13.2	And so we're going to spend the rest of this episode with two stories that generated
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