Whether it’s our earliest childhood memory, a family trauma, a heartbreak, or a three minute conversation with a stranger in the grocery store checkout line, relating our stories can be a powerful act.

Recounting personal narratives can be complicated. The process can be painful, eye-opening, hilarious, infuriating, transformative. Ultimately, storytelling is a uniquely human experience. It helps bring out emotions, empowers us, helps us connect and empathize with one another.

Neurological effects of storytelling. [Source: Fast Company via Forbes]

StoryCorps began in 2003 with a tiny, enclosed "storybooth" in Grand Central Station. It allowed people to drop in, record their narratives, and leave their legacies. Since then, it has expanded, allowing many more stories to be collected and archived.

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