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Jan 2025
1h 20m

Chicken Soup for the Soul pt. 1 with Sar...

CHELSEY WEBER-SMITH
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Many of you will remember the 1993 best-selling book of inspirational stories, Chicken Soup for the Soul, and its bite-sized, sappy triumphs of the human spirit. But shining a modern light on this book today, the collection hits a little bit differently. For part one of this two-part series, I tell podcaster Sarah Marshall of You’re Wrong About the history o ... Show More
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