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Welcome to the moth podcast. I'm your host, Dane Wilburn

It's our Halloween episode and I remember in third grade

wearing my favorite Halloween costume of all time

My school loved to celebrate Halloween and the high watermark of the year was the Halloween parade

My mother asked me what did I want to wear and I said I want to go dressed up as my hero

Terry Bradshaw for those of you who don't know or don't remember Terry Bradshaw was a quarterback of the Pittsburgh Steelers and

Took them to a Super Bowl now

It is not easy to get a football uniform for a kind of chunky girl in a third grade

But without blinking my mother asked her friend if I could wear her son's uniform and the Mrs. Practice uniform

So it was fragrant

However, we laundered it we got it on me now trying to find me the pants that was never gonna happen

I had grace wet pants, gym shoes, the jersey, and then when it came to the helmet

There was a debate now my mother thought I could just carry it and I

Responded to her well, that's impossible because if I just carry it then no one will understand my commitment to the costume

That's when she decided to cut out the ear protection inside the helmet so I could put it on

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