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Kate Braestrup is a chaplain to game wardens, often on search and rescue missions, in the wilds of Maine. She works, as she puts it, at hinges of human experience when lives alter unexpectedly — where loss, disaster, decency, and beauty intertwine. Hear her wise and unusual take on life and death, lost and found. (Original Air Date: June 26, 2008)

About the Guest:
Kate Braestrup is a Unitarian Universalist chaplain for the Maine Warden Service and the author of “Here If You Need Me.”

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