Sylvie Lubow
Stories
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National
'Everybody Has Their Own Mountains.' A Coming-Out Journey Made Easier With Friendship
Before 90-year-old Kenneth Felts revealed to his family that he is gay, he built a friendship with another gay man, whose ability to be himself inspired Felts. He opened up "another world," for Felts.
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A U.S. Army Chaplain, Deployed In His Own Country, Honors Pandemic Victims
For StoryCorps, Army Maj. Ivan Arreguin remembers being deployed to New York City at a heart-wrenching moment of the coronavirus crisis this past April.
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Pulling Off A Halloween Prank During A Deployment In Iraq
"We were doing an awful job in an awful time," veteran Garett Reppenhagen said in a StoryCorps conversation. "If I shed any joy to anybody on that base that day, then I think it was all worth it."
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In An Internment Camp, 'Maggie' The Magpie Lifted Spirits
Shig Yabu rescued a bird when he was a young boy detained at a Japanese relocation camp in Wyoming. "She was so compassionate with the internees," he said. "I don't think she realized she was a bird."
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'We Were Lucky': Kids Of Holocaust Survivors Learned Their Parents' Life Philosophy
At StoryCorps, Abe and Esther Schuster remember their parents' joyful outlook, even as Holocaust survivors. "They never were kids," Abe said. "So sometimes you can make up for things later."