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Yanina – An Artistic Thank You

Yanina – An Artistic Thank You

You always hope when you do a story that the people in the story will be happy with it. Thank you notes are some of the most kind and thoughtful gestures. I’m always touched when I receive one. The thought that someone took the time to sit down and write a note and then to go to the trouble of dropping it in the mail, rather than just dashing off a quick e-mail. Every time I receive a note like this I think, “People can be so nice.” Thank you notes are also extremely personal, but this note was...

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Yanina Cywinska “The Sugar Plum Nut”

Yanina Cywinska “The Sugar Plum Nut”

Yanina Cywinska “The Sugar Plum Nut” from Mike Carroll on Vimeo. A few weeks ago I was sent out with a news intern to shoot an interview with an 82 year old woman in Concord, California, and was told that she had been in the war — World War Two. She greeted us with sparkling eyes and a quick sense of humor. I clipped a microphone to her and started the camera rolling and then was astounded by the story that poured out of her. She had been born in Poland and raised in Warsaw. Her father was a...

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