This American Life contributor Davy Rothbart goes to Brazil with his deaf mother to try and get her hearing back from a miracle healer called Joao de Deus, or John of God. They had trouble agreeing whether the things they witnessed down there were miracles or not. Davy Rothbart is behind the compendium of things lost and discarded: Found. (37 minutes)
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