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From PRX this is the moth radio hour. I'm Jay Ellison producer of this radio show and this time we bring you stories from a live moth

Mainstage event produced in partnership with the music hall in Portsmouth, New Hampshire your host for this show

poet storyteller and writer

Dame Wilburn

Good evening. How are you doing?

Nice nice nice. I want to welcome to the moth at the music hall in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. I can't tell you I excited

I don't be here

How much I love this town. I love y'all

It's been a good couple of days

So our theme tonight is high anxiety and

I have not been in Portsmouth long

But Portsmouth has caused me some anxiety and I'd like to tell you why

So I'm from Michigan and in Michigan. Thank you. Thank you friends of the North. I bring you greetings from the tundra

The second tundra y'all got it too

I like to know what time things are happening and

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