Producer Lina Misitzis travels to Greece with her family to exhume the bones of her dead grandmother. (20 minutes)
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Act Two: Blood Ties
The discovery of 30 century-old postcards written in old Yiddish by a distant family member challenges David Kestenbaum’s ideas about the unimportance of blood ties.
Act Four: Potus Operandi
Ten years ago Jonathan Menjivar was on the cusp of something big: the birth of his daughter.
Act Three: Sklar-Crossed Brothers
Being an identical twin is kind of like having a parallel world right on top of ours, one in which there is another version of you running around.
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Act Three: Mommy’s Busy Right Now
Lana has a problem lots of mothers have right now during the pandemic—but a more extreme version of it.
Act One: School of Hard Knocks
Broward County is one of the bluest counties in Florida, and some of the Democrats who live and vote there are worried their party isn’t doing enough to keep it that way.
Act Two: Before Sunrise
Producers Diane Wu and Lina Misitzis spend the night at a corner grocery store in Brooklyn, New York and talk to some of the people that pass by. (25 minutes)