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Price and participation may vary. This is The Moth Radio Hour.

I'm your host, Jay Allison, producer of this radio show.

In this hour, stories of culture shock, crossing the boundaries between people, communities,

and even species.

Sometimes we adapt, sometimes not so much.

Our first story is told by Jason Cordellis.

He told this with us at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado.

Here's Jason, live from the Wheeler Opera House.

In December of 2001, I went on my very first cruise,

and I had always dreamed of going on one of those all-gay RSVP cruises.

You know the ones that you read about to Sunny Alcapulco or Puerto Viata or Puerto Rico.

All that sun, all those banana colladas and all those boys.

This, however, was not that cruise.

On September 11th, my best girlfriend, Marion, lost her firefighter husband, Dave Fontana, and she was left alone to raise their five-year-old son, Aidan. The date also happens to be their wedding anniversary. So I quit my job, and I've been by her side pretty much ever since. And she says, I don't have to do that, and I say, well, it's what anyone would do. And she says, well, no, it's not. And I say, well, then it's what Susan Sarandon would do.

And, I mean, prior to the 11th, I was really just the gay best friend, you know.

But since then, I have kind of been promoted.

And Marion has come to refer to me to all the people in her life, the firefighters and the widows and the neighbors and cousins.

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