The Moths Special Main Stage is coming to town.

Join us on September 29th at the Historic Guard Art Center for a night of vibrant true stories.

Five storytellers will share captivating true tales,

experience a night of unforgettable Moths' stories as they're recorded for future episodes of the Moths Podcast and Radio Hour.

By tickets now at themoth.org slash London. We'll see you there.

Welcome to the Moths Podcast. I'm Mark Salinger, the producer of the podcast and your host for this episode.

Yes, I am both producing this episode and hosting it. And yes, I feel a little weird about that.

So, what's the biggest secret you've ever kept?

For me, it was, wait, this is actually going up to a lot of people, like a lot of people,

so I'm not going to share the biggest secret I've ever kept.

The most fun secrets I've ever kept were probably all the crushes I and my friends had in high school.

Shout out to Julie and Craig, not their actual names, but if they're listening to this, I think they know who they are and they probably know I had a little crush on them.

Anyway, looking back, the secret crushes weren't fun so much as the most important things ever.

This episode, we've got stories about secrets and about how when you're growing up, every secret can seem like the end of the world.

And to share those stories, we're going to be playing an episode from the most very first spin-off podcast, Grown.

That's GR-O-W-N. I could go on and on about how special I think Grown is, but why don't you just hear it for yourself?

Fanzo, I've got something really special for you today.

Oh, yeah.

It is my diary from 2008 and I would like you to do the honors of reading some of these passages from 10-year-old Aliza.

It would be my honor.

I'm going to own...

Set the scene.

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