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180: Return to Childhood 2001
Act Three

Ich... Bin... Ein... Mophead

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Producer Alex Blumberg sets out to find a woman named Susan Jordan, who babysat him and his sister for a year when he was nine. He discovers that each of them remembered something about the other that the other would just as soon forget. (20 minutes)

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Alex Blumberg

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“Jenny G” by The Push Kings

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