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Format: 2013-05-20
a revenge tale to soothe the soul of anyone who was ever bullied on the school bus; a little sister finds her voice in the aftermath of her brother's murder; a son discovers the family secret that followed his mother to her grave; a rookie reporter wagers his career at the horse track, and bets on the wrong horse + more
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an 85-pound high-school kid earns an athletic scholarship by sheer determination; a teenage girl survives a car accident and learns what it feels like to be an infant again; the 'King of the Realm' at Medieval Times divulges the ups and downs of his royal workday; a Rolling Stones song teaches a son how to counsel his ailing mother...+ more
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A stoner teenager and his 70-year-old father inadvertently share plate of 'special' brownies; a family secret leaves one brother remorseful and the other within inches of his life; a house fire gives a young mother the last thing she'd expect – faith, hope, and gratitude; and refugee from Mauritania survives genocide...+more
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A father shares the indelible memory of seeing his premature baby's first moments of life; a teenage boy and his mother have a moment of understanding in the least likely of places, backstage at a Twisted Sister concert; a Hungarian immigrant remembers the perilous journey that followed when he was forced to flee his homeland + more
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A tale about what happens when you're black, but white people just don't want to believe it; the story of a young woman's high-pressure summer interning at a law firm, and the culminating company softball game that landed her in the hospital + more
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Alex had it all in high school, or so it seemed – she was a cheerleader, blond, beautiful, and popular – then she started an unlikely romance with a marginalized heavy-metal head-banger who lived in a trailer park. He didn't have much going for him, but he had something Alex never even knew she was missing: A real family.
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a hapless high school student has well-intentioned parents who send him to a prestigious private academy, but his only wish is to be back home at public school with his old friends, so he embarks on a master plan to get expelled; a high school girl searches for social acceptance from the popular kids at Bible Camp + more
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A newspaper photographer remembers her vain efforts to impress a hunky reporter; a granddaughter tells the tale of a Thanksgiving dinner that ends unceremoniously when grandpa's ex-girlfriend walks into the room naked; a boyfriend endures the humiliation of living under the same roof with an ex, and her new beau + more
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A girl falls in love with a voice on the radio and then makes the mistake of finding the guy it belongs to; an international reporter stumbles into more than he bargained for in Mogadishu, Somalia; a man remembers the torment he suffered at the hands of a grade-school bully, a bully who happened to be blind + more
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scary stories: A horror writer recalls his childhood experience with the death of a young sibling; an organ transplant technician remembers a night in the morgue with a spirit that didn't seem quite ready to depart; an unsuspecting man encounters an axe-wielding lunatic; a B-more City cop recounts the emotional tumult of his first homicide case + more
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