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workshops and on the moth podcast and the moth radio hour once the curtains have closed the rooms emptied and the voice is

Quieted it's the stories still ringing in our ears that whisper over and over we are all of us more alike than we are different

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Welcome to the moth podcast. I'm Jody Powell your host for this week

We're all looking for something in the new year. I better job

I wait to spend more time with your family or a place where you can really feel at home

Maybe you don't even know exactly what you're searching for you just need to find something new

This week two stories about people looking for something and what happens when they actually find it or

First storyteller this week is Jessica Rivera

Jessica told this at a store in Slam in Seattle where the theme of the night was Mama Roles

Here's Jessica live at the moth

Hi

And so I grew up in Texas, which is like a sea of dead brown grass

And so when I moved to the Pacific Northwest to Seattle

It was like a magical wonderland of trees and mountains and water and

Whales were like a mythological creature to me when I was a kid

But when I figured out you could actually see them here. I was like I'm gonna do that. I'm gonna see whales and

I mean the marine mammal not the country, but um

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