In this week's StoryCorps, a woman describes how the death of her first baby led her to become a doula.

Karina Borgia-Lacroix was in a StoryCorps booth in Fort Myers, Fla., last month with her 10-year-old son, Levi, when he asked her, "What is your favorite memory of me?"

Growing up in 1950s St. Louis, Judd Esty-Kendall remembers his father taking in wild animals. He told his own son about a special bond that his dad had with one animal in particular.

Conchetta Brown, 66, has Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, or COPD, and she uses oxygen to help her breath. She talks to her daughter Nidera about looking ahead to life after death.

Two sisters discuss a harrowing and dark incident in their family history. Kim Farrant and Joy Kahahawai-Welch remember their uncle, and how the family has kept his name and legacy alive.

Jackie and Scott Miller, a mother and son, first came to StoryCorps in 2008, and Jackie revealed a secret. Jackie is now 88, and her health is declining. They came back for one more conversation.

In 2014, Donna Salemink was solo parenting her two teenagers and often struggled to make ends meet. She came to StoryCorps with her daughter Melissa to remember the moment that changed their lives.

Shelby Rowe, a Chickasaw woman in Oklahoma City, describes how her connection to culture helped her heal from life challenges. She became a mom at 18 — followed by three difficult marriages.

Luz Kenyon grew up in Mexico City, and in the mid 1980s she took a trip to New York City and fell in love with a Jamaican traffic agent. She talks to her daughter about being a mixed-race family.

Growing up in the 1950s, Gwen Timbimboo Davis, a Native American, spent most summers visiting the reservation where her grandmother lived. She talks to her daughter about her memories.

In this week's StoryCorps, Zack Stephney talks to Melissa Brooks — he rescued her from a flash flood in Georgia in 2009.

Some people may not be meant to drive, and Maritza Bell might be in that group. Danny Bell, her husband, and their daughter Sydia, went to a StoryCorps booth to remember Maritza's final lesson.

David Hedison came to a StoryCorps booth years ago with his daughter Serena and revealed he got a nose job to be an actor. Serena and her sister Alex came back to StoryCorps to reflect on the secret.

A husband remembers his wife and their 62 years together.

The Hawaiian island of Molokai was once the site of America's largest leprosy colony. A brother and sister in Hawaii discuss how their lives were shaped by leprosy, also known as Hansen's disease.

On StoryCorps, two sisters growing up in an Ohio farmhouse get a visit from an ice cream truck.

When Jeffrey Perri was nine, his grandfather Tony Perri came out to him as gay. Later, Jeffrey also came out. What was already a close relationship became something more meaningful for both of them.

Hajime Koyama, who goes by Issan, is a retired hospice worker. He came to StoryCorps to remember his grandmother who shaped is understanding of grief and inspired him to care for those who are dying.

Suzi and Donna Wong grew up just minutes from the big movie studios, but a world away. Their dad moved to the U.S. from China and opened a laundry business on Melrose Avenue in 1949.

"If somebody needed help — Granny was going. Black and whites alike, it made no difference to her," Mary Othella Burnette says of her late grandmother, a second-generation midwife in Black Appalachia.