Hello, Moth Family. Have you listened to our new podcast, Grown Yet? Grown, that's GROWN,

is a podcast filled with true stories all about the joys and pains of growing up.

Listen with a young person in your life, or by yourself to hear Moth Stories,

storyteller interviews, and audio diaries from young voices that tackle family dynamics,

heartbreak, culture, mental health, and so much more. If you love listening to Moth Stories,

then share Grown with a young person in your life. Find it by searching GROWN on all major podcast

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From PRX, this is the Moth Radio Hour. I'm Meg Bulls. In this hour, we bring you four stories,

all dealing with fear, phobias, and sleepless nights, from mild anxiety to true terror.

Some of this fear is rational and some seemingly irrational, but for these storytellers, it's all very real.

Our first story comes from Jessica Pan. She shared her story in evening we produced at the Union

Chapel in London. Here's Jessica live at the Moth.

So it was a normal day like any other. I woke up and I went to my favorite cafe and I got a cup of coffee

and while I was waiting in line for the coffee, I turned to my left and there was his box

and it was filled with these little buttons and I was curious so I picked one up and I read it

and it said, I talked to strangers and I immediately threw the button back down because I didn't

want anyone to see me holding that. I didn't want them to think that I wanted them to talk to me

because of a huge fear of talking to strangers and I never do it. I think you should talk to a

stranger if your phone is broken and you're in an unfamiliar neighborhood and you've broken your

leg and there's like a sudden tornado and only if all of these things happen at once. Otherwise,

don't do it. I moved to London about six years ago from Beijing and I was super excited to get here

because England has all this green space but it also has all this personal space and when I got to

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