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I'm Meg Bowles, and in this hour, we bring you four stories that deal with the aftermath of wrong turns,

and the process of figuring out a way through.

Sometimes a hastily made choice can lead down a perilous road, which was quite literally the

case for our first storyteller, Julie Pryor, who shared this story at an evening we produced

in partnership with the Anchorage Concert Association.

From the Outwood Concert Hall in Anchorage, Alaska. Here's Julie Pryor, live at the mall.

So I was three years old when the moving truck pulled into the driveway of my new home in New Jersey.

And my dad lifted me up, and he put me in the cab of the truck,

and he pointed to the rope hanging from the ceiling, and he said, pull that.

So I did what I was told.

I stood up, and I pulled that rope with all of my might,

and I was terrified by the sound it made.

It was an air horn.

I was terrified, but Dad was smiling.

He looked at me and he said, good.

Now the neighbors know we're here.

We have arrived.

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