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May 2022
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EP306: Shooting Bunnies From A Motorboat...

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On this episode of Our American Stories, Author Winter Prosapio dives into some of the weird laws we have here in the U.S. Years after finding out she was adopted, Traci Huguley discovered she was not the only child adopted out. She then made it her mission to find her siblings. Dennis Peterson's father was hard but fair, and some of the biggest lessons Dennis learned were on the job site, doing brick work with his father.

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00:00 - Shooting Bunnies From A Motorboat?

12:30 - The 46-Year-Long Journey to Finding My Sisters

37:00 - Big Lessons for a Little Boy

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