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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 Jody Powell a producer and director at the moth

After the worst of the pandemic, I took a trip to the moth office. We were out for over a year

It looked like everything was frozen in time unchanged except the plants that were maintained

They were now three times the size but all else the pens on the desk in Mason jars postcards sent for birthdays

The calendar still read 2019

From where I stood the sun said came in like always

We all have moments where time loses its meaning

But sometimes we get reminders that the best moments are right now

Just then I looked around the whole office everything was covered in sunset in true amber

In this episode stories about when time slows down and sometimes its slowness brings a gift

Our first story comes from Scott Gravatt

He told it at a store slam in Portland, Oregon where a media partner's Oregon public broadcasting here Scott live at the moth

My son has always been a little countercultural when he was in eighth grade

He trade someone gave him a guitar hero video game and he traded it in for a real guitar

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