Welcome to the Moth podcast. I'm Jody Powell, and on this episode, Family Matters.

Yes, we're talking family, finding, reconnecting and standing up for family.

First up, we've got a story about family finding you.

Alicia Kenworthy told this at a DC grand slam where the theme of the night was between the lines.

Here's Alicia, live at the mouth.

So one morning, about a year ago now, I was lying in bed and staring at my phone

when I received a message via the contact form on my personal website. And now, to be

honest, I'm not sure why I even keep a contact me form available for the World Wide Web. Mostly,

what I get is spam. Although one time a lady from Vancouver, Canada, wrote to let me know she

shares my name and also receives my Papa John's delivery notifications to her inbox.

She just wanted to let me know the pepperoni pizza I ordered was on its way.

So it has its uses.

This message that I got though was different.

It was well written and with almost impeccable grammar, so clearly not spam.

And it hailed all the way from Munich, Germany.

Dear Alicia, it read,

I do some family research,

and I would really like to drop Ken Kenworthy a line.

Ken Ken Ken Kenworthy may have known my biological mother.

Ken Ken Ken Kenworthy is my father. So I googled this German gentleman with

almost impeccable grammar, and I came across his LinkedIn, and there was a photo of a man who is the

spinning image of my father staring right back at me.

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