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Jul 2022
50m 46s

S13 E10: [Whitney] CODE PINK

Broken Cycle Media | Wondery
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*Content Warning: Today’s episode discusses kidnapping, pseudocyesis, miscarriage and psychological violence. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to help find missing children, reduce child sexual exploitation, and prevent child victimization. NCMEC offers services for families, victims, professionals, schools, law enforcement, private industry, and communities to help prevent abducted, endangered, and sexually exploited children and to mitigate and combat exploitation. www.missingkids.org

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KOCO 5 News, 2019, video archives (1990): https://cs-cz.facebook.com/koco5/videos/294426101245444/ 

KOCO 5 News, Jan. 2019, video archives (1990):

Baby snatched from Oklahoma City hospital, now adult, speaks out for first time 

Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree, by Tony Orlando and Dawn, sample via youtube: https://youtu.be/PxG9XFqHSFw (Album: Tuneweaving, 1973)

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