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Welcome to The Moth.

I'm Kate Tellers, and on this episode, we're putting on our masks, getting our makeup ready, and donning our costumes.

Comic-Con, which is happening this week, has us thinking about things we do in order to become someone or something else, even if only for a moment.

Whether it's the oddly aggressive Elmo's in Times Square, the tiger mascot at your high school pep rally, or Mickey Mouse walking through Disney World, costumes can transform people, give them permission to inhabit someone else with all that that entails. First up, we've got Annie Wyberg,

who told this story at a Twin Cities grant summer. Here's Annie live at the mall.

It was a beautiful summer evening in Minnesota, the kind where neighbors are outside, talking

to each other while their children play.

I was located a block away from such a neighborhood gathering, but I was lying in the backseat

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