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Welcome to the moth podcast. I'm Devon Santaford your host for this week

I'm also as it happens your storyteller for this week in this episode. You'll hear my story lost in their eyes

It's actually the second story I ever told and afterwards

I'll talk to some special guests about what the story means to them

So please stay tuned in for that after the story for 2022

The moth is counting down each of the moths 25 years. So this story is from 2019

I told it at a New York City Story's lamp where the theme of the night was neighborhoods

Here's well me live at the moth

It's 1991

I'm six years old and I'm being chased to the lunch yard by a group of five girls

I'm sprinting through lunch tables

Dashing pine drinking fountains. I'm even hurtling over other boys who fall in trying to get away

I'm really killing this escape

I just moved back to my hometown

It's a small town an hour east of Los Angeles. It's the type of place the type of neighborhood where

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