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	Podcast:		Other News
	Episode:		Small Miracles: Sound Effect, Episode 182
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:49:04
	Publish Date:		2020-06-06 12:04:00
	Description:		This show originally aired on June 29, 2019. For this special edition of Sound Effect, the theme is “Small Miracles,” tales from our live storytelling event. Host Gabriel Spitzer recounts his brush with death after years of humiliation in swim class. Ty Reed recalls how a random encounter saved his life after he fell into homelessness and addiction. Cindy Healy is moved to tears seeing a special spacecraft in a Matt Damon movie. Queen Mae Butters remembers a powerful friendship formed at the end of her hospice patient’s life. And Paul Currington learns to breathe through the smoke of his past . SINK OR SWIM It’s 1985, and little 8-year-old Gabe is shivering on the tile floor next to Jewish Community Center swimming pool in Canton, Ohio. After wrapping up his “Advanced Beginners” swim class, he lined up with the other kids awaiting our Red Cross cards. That card would be my ticket to the next class: Intermediate. The instructor came down the line and, when she handed me my card, it did
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