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Better your story. This is the Moth Radio Hour.

I'm your host, Kate Tillers.

The other night I was walking home from the subway with my two children, ages 8 and 10.

We had just crossed an intersection when we heard

squealing tires immediately followed by the crunch of metal. When we turned around, there were

two people lying in the street next to a smashed up motorcycle. I knew two things immediately.

I had to call 911, and my children could not witness this. I quickly told them to turn around with their backs

to the street and me, as I described to the dispatcher what I was witnessing. After help was

confirmed, I turned around to my children to see their tiny backs, rigid, lit up by flashing

blue and red lights as the sound of sirens grew closer. They looked so innocent.

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