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

This episode we have a story from the moth main stage

Alissa Hirsch told the story in Anchorage, Alaska where the theme of the night was uncharted territory

Here's Alissa live at the moth

My boyfriend started telling me bedtime stories because my insomnia had gotten so bad that I wouldn't even try to fall asleep

without having something to listen to

He told one story in particular that I really loved the story that we had made up together over time the story of a sloth

A little girl sloth who did not have insomnia

Every night her friends took her on a magic carpet ride all across the world

But every night she was too sleepy to enjoy the sights

They took her to Egypt and she slept through the pyramids they took her to Peru and she slept through Machu Picchu

Every night he would look at me and he would say where to and I would give him a list of destinations

Morocco and Tiguah and Ardaka and he would describe the sights and I would sleep right through it

If there was an end to that story, I never heard it once

We've been dating for a while and things were going really well

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