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StoryCorps in KC: Nila Cleaves and Jannise Stallard

By edited by Laura Spencer

Kansas City, MO – At StoryCorps recording booths across the country, friends and loved ones interview each other about their lives. Each Wednesday during Morning Edition, we'll bring you a story recorded at the MobileBooth in Kansas City. Jannise Stallard brought her cousin Nila Cleaves. Here, Nila talks about her earliest memory: the day she met her father when he returned home from World War II.

Storycorps in Kansas City is sponsored by the William T. Kemper Foundation, Commerce Bank, Trustee.

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