On September 11, 2001, Abe Wachsman had driven to his office in the financial district of New York City. As the horrors of the terrorist attacks unfolded that morning, Wachsman piled strangers in his ...

NPR's series "Throw It Back" explores how the objects we love as kids shape how we see and live in the world as adults. It continues with the story of the Rev. Gregory Holston and his stuffed monkey.

Sometimes a kid's best friend isn't actually a person. GREGORY HOLSTON: He had brown hair. He had a yellow chest, almost like a "Curious George" cartoon character. RASCOE: Reverend Gregory Holston ...