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This American Life

Miracle Cures

Hosted by Ira Glass Apr. 03, 2004
A deaf woman goes to Brazil to ask John of God for her hearing back, and brings her skeptical son along on the journey.

This week on This American Life, a deaf woman goes to Brazil to ask John of God for her hearing back, and brings her skeptical son along on the journey.

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