Arc Stories: September 2016 Edition

| September 29, 2016 

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Storyteller Sandy Wright-Leonard

Arc Stories

Three stories where our storytellers find themselves in situations completely over their heads. A woman has the opportunity to fulfill a dream she’s been pursuing most of her life; one woman’s discovery of whether or not you really can come home again; and another where a man struggles to create a connection across barriers of generation, culture, and language.

(Originally aired September 29, 2016 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.)

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