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Nov 2023
23m 27s

Extra Credit: Your Stories (Buchanan Twi...

Penn Badgley, Nava Kavelin, Sophie Ansari
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Is there such a thing as twin telepathy? Find out on this week's extra credit YOUR STORY episode, featuring listeners and twins Nahja and Nahjeniq Buchanan. Nahja and Nahjeniq share about their twin hijinks in middle school, establishing their own identity separate from being a twin and tapping into their twin intuition.

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