Watch Amazing Animated Versions of StoryCorps Stories

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Morgan Clendaniel

August 18, 2010 • 9:30 am PDT
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You may have heard some clips from StoryCorps—a project to create and archive oral histories around the country—on NPR. This week, they launched a new project, with animated versions of some of their more moving stories. The two available now are "Q & A," a deeply touching interview between a mother and her son with ~~Asperberger's~~ Asperger's about their relationship as parent and child, and "Danny & Annie," a story of a couple who are as much in love today as they were the day they met. Watch them both below:

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