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Looking through photo albums that aren't yours or your families is such a funny experience you

flip through these old pictures of people you don't know and start to feel a weird sort of

nostalgia for a life you didn't live there's a photo in today's book that hits that same note for me

it's of an apartment building it looks old and it's got those

locked black gates in the front and it has this like lived in feel to it. You can almost imagine

kids running out and slamming the gates shut because they're late to catch the bus or something.

It's actually a photo of Dwayne Wade's childhood home in Chicago. The NBA star has a new memoir out, and it's mostly old photographs, pictures of him at games,

training, chill and watching TV.

He told here announced Tanya Mosy why he chose to go that route instead of a more traditional

memoir, and how he came to the realization that he had nothing left to give to basketball.

In the U.S., national security news can feel far away from daily life.

Distant wars, murky conflicts, diplomacy behind closed doors.

On our new show, Sources and Methods, NPR reporters on the ground bring you stories of

real people helping you understand why distant events matter here at home.

Listen to sources and methods on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.

You think you know what it takes to be one of the top players in the NBA? Some things we can guess.

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