This time on TSWI from WBEZ: A Close One. Three short stories of people who have had a brush with something terrible and walked away from it somehow changed, sometimes for the better. Comedian Yannis Pappas gets shot in the leg and has to learn how to find the funny again. Runner May el Khalil gets hit by a car and creates the Beirut marathon from her hospital bed. And Jonathan goes on a holiday to Africa and has a dangerous confrontation with desperation.