Tessa Fontaine, Moses Storm, Abdi Nor Iftin, and Laura Veirs

Published: July 6, 2018, 11 a.m.

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Luke Burbank and announcer Elena Passarello relive their \\u201cgreat escapes;\\u201d writer Tessa Fontaine explains how learning to eat fire as a part of America's last traveling sideshow helped mend her broken heart; comedian and actor Moses Storm riffs on a childhood spent living in a bus with his missionary family; memoirist and visa lottery winner Abdi Nor Iftin recounts his journey from war-torn Somalia to rural Maine; and singer-songwriter Laura Veirs performs the T.S. Eliot-inspired \\u201cMargaret Sands\\u201d from her latest album \\u201cThe Lookout.\\u201d

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