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Todays story comes from Yvonne Hirdman; a famed Swedish historian. Her mother died when Yvonne was relatively young and so she never really knew too much about her. And then one day she was looking through her mother Charlottes old stuff and suddenly she found her diary...

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This episode was published on September 23, 2016.

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Todays story comes from Yvonne Hirdman; a famed Swedish historian. Her mother died when Yvonne was relatively young and so she never really knew too much about her. And then one day she was looking through her mother Charlottes old stuff and...

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