The Moth Radio Hour: Menorahs, Presents and Palm Trees - December Holiday Stories
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🗓️ 17 December 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:35.3 | I'm Sarah Austin-Gness. |
| 0:36.8 | This is our annual December holiday episode. |
| 0:40.3 | We have stories of feasts, traditions, celebrating, not celebrating, connecting with family and friends, |
| 0:46.4 | and just wanting to be alone. Six stories that explore the mixed emotions that come with this last month in the year. |
| 0:54.3 | Our first storyteller is Moth veteran Peter Aguero. |
| 0:58.3 | Peter calls this story, Me and Mama, versus Christmas. |
| 1:02.4 | Lots of people go overboard at Christmas. |
| 1:04.7 | It's a time of excess, the decorations and the gifts and the food. |
| 1:09.0 | But what if money is tight? |
| 1:11.6 | Peter told this story at a moth night we produced in partnership with West Virginia Public Radio. |
| 1:16.6 | Here's Peter Aguero. |
| 1:22.6 | So I just finished my first semester of college and I have a big bag of laundry and I come through the door |
| 1:30.4 | of the house and things aren't looking too good for me and my mom. The first thing I notice is that |
| 1:35.7 | the piano is gone. She had that ever since she was a little girl and took piano lessons. We always |
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