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on this all call-ins, Brian Lair show for Christmas Eve, Hanukkah Eve, Kwanza Almost Eve,

and this all call-in's edition of our centennial series, 100 Years of 100 Things.

Today it's thing number 52, your best true family stories of the past 100 years.

Now, listen up, I thought to keep it as kind of a hundred year timeline over the last 100 years,

we're going to do this in three chronological chunks.

Maybe this will work. Maybe it will crash and burn, but let's try it. If you have a family story

that dates from any time in the 1920s, 30s, or 40s, call in right now and tell a short version

of it on the air. 212-433 WNYC.

If they're from later than that, hold it for the moment.

If you have a family story that dates from any time in the 1920s, 30s, or 40s,

call in right now and tell a short version of it on the air as soon as we come back from the news.

212-433 WNYC, 433-9-6-9-2.

It can be a funny story, a serious story, a life-changing story, or a trivial story, no rules in that respect.

Just any family story that dates from any time in the 1920s, 30s, or 40s, call in right now

and tell a short version of it on the air.

I could tell the story.

I won't really go into it because this is for you.

But of my maternal grandmother, who was a refugee from what is now

Ukraine, winding up in the United States, her naturalization document says, country of origin was

Austria-Hungary, but these days it's part of Ukraine, area called Ivano-Franksk. But if she had remained there,

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