Moth stories have the power to bring you into a world that is often not your own and leave you wishing that you could live in that world

Just a little bit longer since 1997 the moth has shared more than 50,000 stories with audiences around the world through shows

Workshops and on the moth podcast and the moth radio hour once the curtains have closed the rooms emptied and the voice is quieted

It's the stories still ringing in our ears that whisper over and over we are all of us more alike than we are different

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From PRX this is the moth radio hour. I'm Jennifer Hickson

Mirror mirror on the wall who the heck am I?

Who is this emerging self in this hour stories of questioning your everything who you are why you're here or as in the case of our first story

What's happening to me?

We first met Ray Christian at a show in North Carolina

Then when we started a story slam in Asheville with support from Blue Ridge public media

He'd make an almost two-hour trek to get to the show

Worse the trip I guess because he'd win almost every time his name was pulled from the hat

Here's Ray Christian live to show in Princeton, New Jersey at the MacArthur Theater Center. I

Was unusually sensitive as a kid and I had a great love for animals

In fact, I used to bring home every wounded or sick dog or cat and broken bird. I find I

Used to think that me and animals could communicate with each other that I could communicate with them that we had a special

Understanding I saw myself as the doctor do little of the community

But the community didn't see me that way

and fact people said I was strange and

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