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I'm a daughter asking my mom about how music influenced her youth and her present.

Ariana Ramos (14) talks to her grandmother, Naomi Ramos (77) about her childhood. They also talk about how she wants to be remembered, and about the life that she has lived and continues to live.

Today, Matthew Nunez and his mom, Carmen Nunez, come together by talking about childhood.

Stanley Diep (18) talks with his friend, Justin Capriotti (18) about our childhood and also how things are going in the current pandemic.

One Small Step partners Karen Pell (69) and John Byrnes (57) talk about the partisan divide, their connections to the military, and the debate around gun control.

Friends LueRachelle Brim-Atkins (76) and Jacquelyn Howard [no age given] discuss LueRachelle's childhood in Texas and her experiences with desegregation at the University of Texas. After college, LueRachelle took an internship as a teacher in Rochester, NY, and ultimately moved...

Emmett Murphy (14) and his grandmother Virginia Wing (83) discuss the COVID-19 pandemic, the year 2020, and various personal subjects.

Helen Chervitz [no age given] shares a conversation with her daughter Olga Ryrahkovsky (32) about motherhood, Olga's childhood, and some of the life lessons they've learned from one another.

Brenda Butt Davidson (69) interviewed friend Barbara Ann Sullivan Brooks (92) about childhood memories, her career, a trip to Europe in 1995, and the Fresh Air Fund.

Miles Gerstein (73) and his wife Susan Davis (71) discuss their membership in Central Synagogue, their life together, their childhood memories of Judaism and some of their life lessons.

Robin Stein (67) interviews her friend Hanni Myers (90) about her experiences growing up in Austria during the second World War, her family's escape to the states, and her experiences learning, traveling, and building intergenerational relationships in the U.S. and...

Ted Fralick discusses: his experiences in Dougherty County Schools; his life in a rock band; his work for the Albany Urban League; traveling for business including to the Korean DMZ; and then spending more than 25 years in the nursing...

Beth Harris(36) talks to Miyah Winter(14) about her childhood and what growing up in a Guyanese home made her into.

Lawrence "Allen" Byrd lll (46) has a conversation with his mother and father, Connie Bruere Olson Byrd (77) and Lawrence "Larry" Allen Byrd, Jr., about their relationship, family memories, travel experiences, and connection to their children.

Naomi Love (27) interviews her new friend Susan Canaday Henry (48) about getting over her arachnophobia, her career, her relationship with art, her childhood, and the life lessons that she has learned along the way.

Spouses Marie Santiago (31) and Danny Santiago (33) sit down for a conversation about the highs and lows of the years that they have spent together and offer some of the wisdom that they have gained along the way.

Rosalie DiGiovanna Mangels' parents and Annette and Pat Orzano shared the rental of a bay front house owned from Charles Mosback for two weeks every summer from starting in about 1954. The DiGiovanni and Orzano kids had wonderful fun on...

Liam Moon age 15 interviews his grandfather on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Topic discussed include growing up in and childhood in Garland and Dallas Texas, hardships, and the most important lessons learned. 2020-08-23 16:37:38

One Small Step conversation partners Eric Marsh (54) and Michelle Taylor (35) have a respectful conversation regarding their upbringing, immigration, and abortion issues.

Delaney Gradwell talks to her grandmother, Julie Peters, about growing up South Buffalo during the 1940s and other anecdotes from Julie's life.

Avery Boyse interviews Kathleen Boyse, her 55-year-old mother. She shares stories from her childhood and describes her father George Sennett and his mother Erminie (Mimi) Sennett. She also talks about her career and the qualities she would like to be...

Andrea Reed (41) talks to her aunt Peggy Allen (77) about their memories of their community at Convent Avenue Baptist Church in Harlem, New York. Together, they reflect on faith, family recipes, and their relationship with each other.

Leah Markworth (17) talks with her grandparents, Susan and Fred Turek, about their love story.

Stephanie Lam (61) talks with her daughter, Sophie Brown (18) about her childhood in Toisan, China in the 1960s and what it was like to move to America at 18. She discusses her life in a small village, her experiences...

One Small Step partners Kanmani Arcot (21) and Robert "Bob" Welch (74) share a conversation about their upbringings, their political values, and the value of education.