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1. Article · Aug 28, 2026 · Halle Hewitt

   'He's living through me': Grandfather helps grandson remember his slain father (opens the original)

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   Time now for StoryCorps. In the mid-1970s, Travis Holmes started the city's first food truck in Birmingham, Alabama. And from a young age, his son Travis Jr. was there working by his side. But when he was just 26 years old, Travis Jr. was killed, leaving behind an infant son of his own. Grandson and grandfather came to StoryCorps to remember him. TRAVIS HOLMES SR: Your dad was 10 when he started working with me. When he'd get off school, he'd want to come and get on the truck. And I'd say no, yo

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2. Article · Jul 31, 2026 · Halle Hewitt

   'I can do this': Woman with cancer reflects on her life and facing death (opens the original)

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   It's Friday and time for StoryCorps. At 59, Karan Founds-Benton had raised a family and was spending her time volunteering on Skid Row in Los Angeles. Then she needed help herself. She sat down for an interview at StoryCorps. KARAN FOUNDS-BENTON: One day, I was sweeping the house, and suddenly I coughed up blood. My friend took me into the emergency room, and what I believed they were going to say was, oh, you just have a little benign cloud in your lung, and it'll go away. But instead, to my su

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