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From the Independent Producer Project of KCRW and KCRW.

com, I'm Bob Carlson and this is Unfictional.

Unfictional is a program of stories and original documentaries.

And no matter what your goals, dreams, or achievements have been in life, we all have days when the hardest thing is to do anything.

Just getting out of bed, getting off the couch feels like an obstacle too tough to tackle and the most appealing plan of

action is often in action. But today on the program three people who got off the

couch one story ends happily, another ends with

a whimper in the aisle of a quickmart, and in the final story getting off the

couch is the only way to stay sane. But first, the story of Maureen Mo O'Neill, she spent

her days mainly alone. She didn't have many friends. She was getting older. She didn't

know who she was anymore.

It got to the point where she couldn't build up the motivation to even leave the house.

But that's when she discovered the solution that opened up the world to her,

and the whole secret was contained in a classic rock power cord.

From KCRW.com, it's unfictional.

Do you know the expression when pigs fly? That's my life. When pigs fly I never thought I'd be happy and I never thought I'd be at peace with life. What I was was alone. Alone was what I knew.

I was born in Brooklyn. My mother was a very, very smart lady. She was beautiful. My mother would start to drink and then bam.

It was crazy time. You know you'd be hit and ahead or pulled through the

apartment by your hair. I couldn't really get friends because my mother would go after them.

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