This is the Moth Radio Hour from PRX, and I'm Suzanne Rust, the curatorial producer at the Moth.

This time we'll hear stories about changes of heart.

Those moments when something shifts and alters your perspective. We'll be hearing from a writer

whose sense of self is changed in a flash, a story about a man who made it across the finish

line despite the obstacles, and a mother who realized that sometimes it's more than okay

when your life goes off script.

Which is exactly what happened with our first storyteller, Andrea King Collier.

She shared her story at the West Virginia Culture Center in Charleston, West Virginia,

where the theme of the night was a more perfect union.

Here's Andrea, live with the mall.

I got married in 1982, and we were so cute, but we couldn't have been more different.

I was a privileged little only child,

a princess of quite a lot,

and my husband was one of six.

When I first met his parents, I said,

how do you remember six names?

And that did not go over well.

But we did have something in common.

We were kids of the 60s.

And we did civil rights marches,

we helped register people to vote,

we knew about segregation,

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