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World Service,25 Mar 2017,26 mins

Unlikely Friends

Boston Calling

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Chalak Berzingi fled Iraq and landed in Trump country. He learned to love his town and the town learned to love him. Also, a Holocaust survivor and the grandchild of Nazis share a home in California; author Deepak Singh runs into somebody who reminds him eerily of... himself; the grandson of the man who helped drop atomic bombs on Japan wants to tell the victim’s stories; a scientist shares a bond with a shark named Lydia; and children in Texas play a game of tug of war with children in Mexico. (Image: Chalak Berzingi poses with his wife, Mayada Issa, and his daughter, Seher Berzingi. Credit: Courtesy of Chalak Berzingi)

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