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From PRX this is the moth radio hour. I'm your host John Good. Let me start by asking you a question

Have you ever had a week a day or even just a moment that took a turn for the better or the worse?

That you just didn't see coming

Maybe you found a scratch off take it on the street and it turned out to be a winner

Perhaps you returned your car to the mall parking lot and discovered that your car was gone and only your

Anti-tough device was left in the parking space. I

Once went to buy a t-shirt in a tourist market in St. John and ended up in a bar in a forest sitting next to a pig in St. Croix

Life will certainly take you to some wild interesting and complicated places

In this hour we have five stories where things take an unforeseen turn for our storytellers

Our first story comes from Sophia's the fun of it

Sophia told this story where the apple is big and the pizza slices are even bigger

New York City at the Housing Works bookstore

Shout out to WNYC our public radio partner and the city that never sleeps here Sophia live at the mall

It's two years ago and I have just moved to New York and I'm feeling a little bit

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