Your stories of the past ten years

The World

We’ve been poring over the 2010 census results, but dry, statistical information only goes so far. So we’ve been asking you how your lives have changed over the past 10 years. We’ve gotten tremendous responses all around, but one from Takeaway listener Heather Hudson really caught our attention. Heather shares her story.

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