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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Personal storytelling in their own lives. Thank you.

This is the moth radio hour from PRX. I'm Sarah Austin, Janess from the moth and I'm glad you're listening.

The moth is a place for two stories told by people all around the world. In this hour four stories of misfits

Outsiders and you know just general awkwardness. What do you do when you don't fit in? Do you try harder? Do you run?

We'll hear a story about a woman who feels she's not Korean enough a

Wild student who wants rules a daughter who's always felt a little disconnected from her mom and our first story

Where a young man escapes an ordinary life in search of glamour and as a heads up this story contains a mild sexual reference

Here's Andrew Solomon live at the moth at the New York Public Library

My senior year of high school I

Decided it was time for things to change my braces were off. I got contact lenses my skin started to clear up and

And my yearbook quote was high-ho the glamorous life

And I needed a summer job and I applied for several jobs including a job in the editorial department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

But I didn't think I'd get because I knew there were a vast number of people competing for it and to my total delight

I did get it and I thought my intellect my intellect is gonna change the world and they can tell

So I got to my first day there and I went into the office of the woman who had hired me and

I noticed that the thank you note I'd sent her after our interview was on her little bulletin board behind her desk

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