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Jun 2021
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Father's Day Special: The Good, The Bad,...

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On this episode of the Our American Stories podcast, we bring you stories about outstanding fathers and fathers who don't make the grade. Leslie Leyland Fields tells us about the heart-breaking relationship between her and her father. And it's not what you'd expect; Taylor Brown shares the eulogy he wrote in Garden and Gun for his biker dad; and Peter Mutabazi, a man who ran away from his abusive father in Africa, got adopted by another family, and would go on to foster and adopt children of his own.

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