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Aug 2021
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EP42: The Giving Tree, Travel Trailers a...

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On this episode of Our American Stories, Texan author Winter Prosapio shares the lessons she learned from The Giving Tree and her critique of how so many of us, like the tree, give until we have nothing left; Brian K. Broadway tells the story of how seeing a family of 3 living inside their car inspired him to create travel trailers and establish the organization Find, Feed and Restore; and Edie Hand shares how the bonds with her brothers, one-by-one, were changed forever by tragedy.

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