Brace Belden was 27 when he snuck into Syria to enlist in a Kurdish militia, leaving his girlfriend, job, and... more

April hasn't seen Steve in 15 years. So when she gets a call from a lawyer asking about him, she's... more

Daley Dunham was a junior in college at UC Berkeley when he decided to donate sperm. He likened it to... more

Stories of unlikely friendships. A man finds himself the sole confidant of an eccentric old man. A woman finds companionship... more

My Linh Le has been lying to her parents about who she is for decades. When she’s with them, she... more

Sunday, December 9, 1984 is a day Beth McGhee will never forget. It’s the day her three year-old daughter, Neola,... more

We've been asking for your stories, and on the last episode of Season 2, we highlight three of our listeners'... more

Henny Kupferstein grew up in the Belz sect of ultra-orthodox, Hasidic Jews in Borough Park, Brooklyn. From early childhood, she... more

In the early 1960’s, a psychologist named Gary Fisher carried out a radical experiment on severely emotionally disturbed children at... more

Jill Sutherland has been numbing her feelings of emptiness with food, drugs and alcohol since she was a child growing... more