Welcome to our Spring Finale. We'll be back with the rest of the season this fall.

This week we hear from Regine. One night she wakes up in the middle of the night to her mother screaming. She later learns that her brother experienced a traumatic brain injury, forcing her entire family to confront a new normal.

This season we recorded all of our stories over Skype, which allowed us to reach people in places we wouldn't have been able to otherwise.

This story is produced by Jhodie Williams-Powell and scored, mixed, and mastered by Miles Dotson.

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