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Recently, one of the two StoryCorps mobile recording booths spent a week on the Fort Berthold Indian reservation in North Dakota. There, Monica Mayer told her friend Spencer Wilkinson, Jr. how her father taught her the value of an education. Monica Mayer, now a physician, practices family medicine on the Fort Berthold reservation where she grew up. Her two sisters mentioned in this story, Holly and Renee, also serve the Fort Berthold community -- one in nursing and the other in social services.
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Recently, one of the two StoryCorps mobile recording booths spent a week on the Fort Berthold Indian reservation in North Dakota. There, Monica Mayer told her friend Spencer Wilkinson, Jr. how her father taught her the value of an education. Monica Mayer, now a physician, practices family medicine on the Fort Berthold reservation where she grew up. Her two sisters mentioned in this story, Holly and Renee, also serve the Fort Berthold community -- one in nursing and the other in social services.
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NPR's Morning Edition 10/7/05
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INTRO:And now a story about another lesson.
It's time again for StoryCorps, the oral history project that's traveling the country collecting your stories.
Recently a StoryCorps Mobile booth spent a week on Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota. That's where Monica Mayer (Mayor) grew up. Here she shares a memory from her middle school years with her friend Spencer Wilkinson, Jr.
OUTRO:Monica Mayer returned to Fort Berthold after receiving a medical degree. She now works on the reservation as a family physician. Her two sisters Holly and Renee also work there--one in nursing and the other in social services.
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