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    Blues Clues, Stowaways and Marital Surpises

    The star of a kid's TV show attracts a new set of fans. A Somali immigrant battles to keep her sister out of trouble. And a woman learns that her husband might be gay.

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    Sep 22, 2013 • 1 min read

    Steve Burns (photo), the star of the kid's TV show Blue's Clues, details his complicated relationship with fame. Fathia Absie, a 13-year-old girl from Somalia, immigrates to the US and struggles to keep her troubled sister in the country. On the eve of her high school reunion, Sex and the City producer/writer Cindy Chupack copes with bombshell news: her husband thinks he might be gay. Popular Moth storyteller Tom Shillue hosts.

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