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Unlikely Heroes: Stories about coming to the rescue - The Story Collider

Unlikely Heroes: Stories about coming to the rescue - The Story Collider

Update: 2025-01-03
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When life throws challenges our way, sometimes the most surprising people—or even baked goods—step up to save the day. In this week’s episode, both of our storytellers remind us that heroes can come in all shapes, sizes, and forms.

Part 1: While on a bike ride with her daughter, Rebecca Stronger comes across an unconscious stranger on the ground.

Part 2: The only thing standing between Ruby Mustill and being trampled by elephants is a tent.

Rebecca Stronger was born and raised in Brooklyn, and she wants you to know that she HAS left the neighborhood a few times. She is a retired acrobat, a veterinarian, a single mother and is just about ready to start calling herself a writer.

Ruby Mustill is an evolutionary biology PhD student at Texas A&M University. Before moving to Texas, she graduated from Columbia University with a BA in anthropology, studied monkeys in Puerto Rico, and managed a remote field site in Kasanka National Park, Zambia. Outside of research, Ruby spends her time knitting and talking at length about her elderly cat, Muffin. She hopes to work at a natural history museum in the future.

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Unlikely Heroes: Stories about coming to the rescue - The Story Collider

Unlikely Heroes: Stories about coming to the rescue - The Story Collider