Hey everyone, this week we have a special Thanksgiving treat for you from two amazing members of our team.

Before they joined us, they were already creating incredibly rich audio stories on their own.

And today we're going to share two of them with you.

The first story we're going to share is from our amazing intern, Agniesz Steinberg,

who won last year's Ampur Student Podcast Challenge. With her story, he's just 23 chromosomes.

And the second story is from Victory Veyes, who started with us as an intern during the pandemic,

and is now making our radio show. He recently helped produce a series from Montana Public

Radio called Fireline. The series is about what wildfire means for the West, for our planet,

and for our way of life. We really hope you enjoy these stories. And thanks to Agniesz, Victor,

and the rest of the throughline team for being such fantastic people to work with every single week.

Stick around for our first story. He's just 23 chromosomes from Agniesz Steinberg.

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Here's our first story from our current intern, Agniesz Steinberg.

Hey, I'm Agniesz Steinberg, and I produced the story he's just 23 chromosomes.

It's a story that explores a family secret I found out later in my life,

and my hunt for someone who I know as donor number 3046. What I discovered ended up changing my

whole outlook on who I am as a person today. And just a note, there's some adult language in this

piece. Here's the story. Hi, I'm Agniesz, and today I'm going to tell you the story of an

immaculate conception. It didn't happen in the Bible. It happened on my mom's lunch break in a

sterile room. Well, my mom likes to say about it is this. I fucked a surrender, and then I had two kids.

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