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From PRX this is the moth radio hour. I'm Jay Allison producer of this show and this time we're bringing you

A live performance produced in partnership with the Terry Town Music Hall in Terry Town, New York. Let's get right to it. We'll start with a welcome and a little storytelling from the evening's host comedian and writer

Polffira Eisenberg. Hello everybody. Welcome to the moth. We have a wonderful show for you tonight. So if you don't know the moth is a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling. People are going to come up here from all walks of life and they tell a true story from their life that has to do with our theme tonight, which is all things relative, which is stories about family relations and I will host it. My name is Ophira Eisenberg.

Many people think that's a very odd name. It is indeed someone asked me today even when I was doing a coffee order and they're like, Ophira is that a name you made up?

Yeah, that's how it worked in my family. Yours too, right? You just got to make up your own name. No, that is a name I was given as a small baby. It is just you've never heard it before probably because it is a very old Hebrew name

that didn't catch on. So that's why you haven't heard it. And I was thinking of course of this themes about relations and I, wow, I'm originally actually from Canada. We walk amongst you undetected. And I feel like a few people were about to climb up.

And I bet you're not Canadian. You're just interested in Canada right now. As an option. And I moved here about 15 years ago. Actually just a lone single. I didn't know anyone. And of course I was also, I hoped to get to know people and fall in love. And at the time, you know, I love when I lived in Toronto.

I used to love watching Sex in the City on HBO. I loved that show. And I thought it was this totally over the top, ridiculous version of what, like a fantasy world of what dating was like in New York. And then I moved to New York and realized it was a documentary.

And I had such a hard time navigating through what that was about. Because you know, as far as how people get together and become couples in Canada, I'll tell you how it works. You sit at a bar and someone buys you a drink and then you date them for 10 years. That's how it works there.

You want to break up with them at eight years, but you're both too polite to deal with it. So you just let it go. But here it was like everyone was at a buffet and they were like, I'm going to have scrambled eggs and cupcakes. They just felt like they could have it all and quickly and then leave.

I found it really daunting. But eventually, you know, I did, I did meet someone who I have now been with for 10 years and right and became that became my family in New York because to right when you move from other countries very weird.

And then recently we just had a baby. So now I really like I have I have an anchor baby and it is very weird being here to knowing that my babies at home alone.

I am a little older to have just had my first child. I understand that when I was pregnant, I was considered both high risk and an inspiration. And of course, it's wonderful. I have a boy. He's a boy for now.

And he is very sweet. Of course, it is just it's interesting what it's brought out and me and what is brought in out in the people around us. Now we live in Brooklyn and people are quite. Yeah, one person likes Brooklyn. Fine. That was the most gentle clap.

I mean, it's lovely living in Brooklyn. Of course, we're in a small space relative to where I think most of you live and our neighbors are very close. But you know, all of our neighbors have little children. So there is a kibbutz feel about it. And we all kind of pile out into the hallways a lot of early evenings and put all the babies beside each other.

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