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Join the moth's story lab this fall, whether for an aspiring writer, a budding filmmaker, or simply someone who loves to spin a good yarn,

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These workshops are free and held in person in New York City or virtually anywhere in the US.

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Welcome to the moth podcast. I'm Kate Tellers, your host for this episode.

When I was five, my dad, through a local trivia contest,

won a trip to Disney World

due to his niche knowledge of Pittsburgh architectural facades.

As that fact might suggest, we were not a Disney family. We were a

listen to records and cut the grass with a pushmower type of family. So this

trip was a complete change of course for us. True to its promise as the happiest

place on earth, the highs were so high. I saw my first live salamander on the

side of our condo. I got bright pink Mickey Mouse ears and Cinderella waved to me from the parade.

I was sad to return to my other reality and even sadder to discover that the photo my dad snapped

of Cinderella's wave was shot a second too late and

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