The Story

Jessica Zichichi and her husband Sal have held onto good jobs - their problem is the housing market.

Jess and Sal were living in a small house in Cape Cod that they loved. Then Sal took a job in South Carolina. It was 2006 and they figured they could easily sell the house. In the meantime, they’d live on their 33-foot boat.

On a July afternoon in 1937, 15-year-old Betty Klenck Brown was listening to her family's shortwave radio. She had her journal and was writing down the lyrics to popular songs when she turned the dial and heard the unimaginable: "This is Amelia Earhart. This is Amelia Earhart." Also in this episode, a photograph recently caused some controversy and a few smirks in Europe: a nude photograph of Simone de Beauvoir. The photo was taken by Art Shay. Art was a paparazzi before the term was even invented. In 1952, he took the nude shot of Simone de Beauvoir, who didn't know he'd taken it.

Allison Wright runs her own framing business. She also has Down syndrome. New government programs are now encouraging people with disabilities to work while they continue to receive federal support.

Margie Renteria is on the verge of losing her house. There are two causes - she signed a questionable mortgage (her payments have gone from $1400 to $2900 a month) and her oldest daughter was diagnosed with leukemia. In order to shuttle her daughter to doctor visits, she had to give up her steady job at Lowes. Also on the show: discovering haiku.