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At age nine, Anicca Harriot plans to study both the heart and space, but as she gets older, that plan becomes more challenging than she expected.
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When Tracey Segarra tells her mother she had an abortion, she's shocked by the response.
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Storyteller Nisse Greenberg travels home to care for his father after a brain injury.
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Jamie Brickhouse begins to notice some startling changes in his mother's behavior.
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Ted Olds fears he’ll fail to graduate after his parents sacrificed to send him to engineering school.
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Jean Zarate is torn between science and music until a tragic event brings both into perspective.
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Actor and writer Erica Silberman tries to find a place for her mother with Alzheimer’s.
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A chemistry set is the perfect opportunity for Nate Charles Troisi to connect with his engineer father.
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Erica Ferencik's father left his family to pursue his obsession with finding monogamy in the animal kingdom.
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Bradford Jordan finds there's more to the brain his dad brings to show his class than just how cool it is.
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For years, chemist Nick Hud struggles to share his work with his Catholic mother, until he finds help from a surprising source.
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Kimberly Rae Miller's family had a secret: her dad was a hoarder. But when she begins digging into the research on hoarding, she finds it's not nearly as simple to fix as she'd hoped.
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When Meehan Crist was a child, her mother hit her head. It was only as an adult that she discovered that her mother was covering up something far more serious: something called rather ironically a "mild traumatic brain injury."
Read MoreDaniela Schiller: A new last memory
Neuroscientist Daniela Schiller studies the emotional components of memory. In her previous story her research helped her begin to understand her father, a holocaust survivor. But that story led to a whole new chapter in their relationship, and her understanding of memories.
Read MoreAbby Pond: A quiet moment
When her dad is diagnosed with cancer, Abby Pond is sent on a journey home, across the world, and into a new science.
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A neuroscientist tests the limits of wonder when his own father suffers a stroke.
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