This American Life
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Last Week's Show: Life After Death Originally aired 07.18.2008
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When John came back from Iraq, he refused to leave his house. He was paranoid. He had violent nightmares—the same ones every night. He was haunted by the killing he'd done. Unlike a lot of vets, John got treatment. The people at the Veterans Affairs clinic started to feel optimistic about his case. And then John attacked his fiancée and her mother. This and other stories of people who've come face to face with death and are struggling to move on.
On a summer day in 1951, two baby girls were born in a hospital in small-town Wisconsin. The infants were accidentally switched, and went home with the wrong families. One of the mothers realized the mistake but chose to keep quiet. Until the day, more than 40 years later, when she decided to tell both daughters what happened. How the truth changed two families' lives—and how it didn't.
