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Feb 2022
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EP194: If I Could Talk With Anyone (Past...

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On this episode of Our American Stories, Stephen Rusiniak answer's the question: if you could spend one hour talking with anyone, living or not, who would you choose? Peter Mutabazi, a man who ran away from his abusive father in Africa, got adopted by another family, and eventually fostered and adopted children of his own. Colin Powell’s son, Michael, shares this eulogy from the day his life was memorialized.


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Time Codes:

00:00 - If I Could Talk With Anyone (Past or Present), It Would Be My Parents

10:00 -From An African Foster Kid to An American Foster Dad

35:00 - Colin Powell Eulogy

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