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Lesia Day's 'Unsung Hero' is Jason who helped her lost mother get home

In stressful times, it's helpful to be reminded of the good people willing to help out. That's the theme of a new podcast from the team at Hidden Brain. It's called: My Unsung Hero.
Stephany Fal, shown in 2008, had driven hundreds of times to her daughter Lesia Day's house in Connecticut. But one day when Fal was supposed to come visit, she didn't show up. Suffering from Alzheimer's she had driven to Rhode Island instead.

In stressful times, it's helpful to be reminded of all the good people out there, willing to step up in a moment of need.

In 2017, Day's mother, Stephany Fal, died of Alzheimer's. But years earlier,

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