Ready to launch your business? Get started with the commerce platform made for entrepreneurs.

Shopify is specially designed to help you start, run and grow your business with easy customizable themes that let you build your brand.

Marketing tools that get your products out there. Integrated shipping solutions that actually save you time.

From startups to scaleups, online, in person and on the go. Shopify is made for

entrepreneurs like you. Sign up for your $1 a month trial at Shopify.com slash setup. From PRX, this is the Moth Radio Hour.

I'm Meg Bowles.

We all have childhood memories.

Some fond, some painful.

Some childhoods are full of dreams and wishes while others are more focused on survival.

In this hour, we bring you three stories. From a small town in Texas to upstate New York to the

southeast of England, we'll hear how different and yet how similar the experience of growing up

can be. Our first story comes from Safraza Manzur. He shared it live on stage at Alice Tully Hall

at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City.

Here's Safraise Manzor, live at the Moth.

So there were no photographs of my parents' wedding day in the house when I was growing up.

I grew up in a town called Luton just outside of London in the 1980s, and my parents were Pakistani Muslims,

and they'd had an arranged marriage, and apparently it had been such an uneventful day

that nobody could remember the day, the week, the month or even the year that it happened.

Now, my parents were many things, but the one thing they definitely weren't was in love.

And the word love was never used in our house.

It was completely taboo.

You could almost say that love was a four-letter word.

...