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From PRX this is the moth radio hour. I'm Jennifer Hickson in this hour we'll be hearing from and about brothers

Although he's 8 years older than me my brother was around for all of my growing up because he needed my mother's basement for band practice

Because of him our house was always filled with rock and roll and people and parties

But perhaps the greatest gift he pushed all the boundaries. He was the classic partying older brother involved in all sorts of mischief

thereby making my transgressions seem mild. For instance when he was just 13 he borrowed the keys to my mother's Ford

Country Squire station wagon and crashed it into the neighbor's yard a block or two away. So the getting in trouble bar was high

My sister and I cruised throughout a lessons in his wide wide wake. Yes ma I'm late for curfew but good news I didn't wreck the car

He made it so much easier for us. Our first story is about an older brother and an unspoken truth

It was told that the housing works book store in Manhattan where public radio station WNYC is a media partner

Here's Brian Kennedy live at the moth

So I was talking to my mom on the phone when she uttered the single most horrifying sentence in the history of the world

Oh did your brother tell you he's finally coming to visit you in New York

Oh shit

My brother and I when we were little we were often mistaken for twins

My mother had this disgusting habit of dressing us in matching outfits and I think that confused people

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