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To celebrate the 44th season of our show, we launched an official survivor podcast called

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All those burning questions about why we did what we did, finally going to be answered.

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Hi, my name is Adi Skillman and this is Loving versus Virginia, the stepping stone for equality in America.

Every year at the National History Day Contest, middle and high school kids from across the country gather to compete, presenting on a range of historical topics.

100 praise their born turning the times award a victory.

Right through appeal taking a stand against prohibition.

Route 66. Road of possibilities.

What a compliment. Loving, chocolate, Missouri, now a compliment city.

Let's all celebrate and get your kids. All in route. 66.

But the topic that grabbed my attention was one presented by a 15 year old from Minnesota.

Claire Isaacson, orphan train. The compromise the children on the right choice.

I'd never heard of the orphan train, but from her first line, Claire had me hooked.

Your parents are not your parents.

Your past is not your past. Your life begins when you are chosen.

Your life begins when you were chosen.

An apt way to describe the orphan train, a mostly forgotten 19th century movement that rescued abandoned children from the crowded streets of East Coast cities and delivered them by train to new families across the country.

In her presentation, Claire channeled real life orphan train rider Victoria Mo, a child of Irish immigrants, as she made the trip west.

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