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From PRX this is the moth radio hour. I'm Jennifer Hickson in this hour

We'll hear stories of looking for home the setting for these homes a repossessed house a middle school science class a concert a silent retreat

Our first story takes place in Portland where we partner with Oregon Public Broadcasting for people of a certain age

Who grew up in Portland going to public schools?

Sixth grade outdoor camp will be familiar the storyteller is Vin Chambrie. Here he is live at the moth

When I was a kid I never cried I

Never had time to I was always put in adult situations

Like the time when I was 12 my mother abruptly woke us up in the middle of the night

Tears streaming down her face her mouth filled with blood from being punched repeatedly

We knew that it was time to flee from him and from that day on we were homeless and on the streets

But I was the man in charge

My four-year-old sister and I would wait down the street in a park while my mother would scope out the shelters

But those places always had social workers and police at those places which meant we might get taken away from her

So most of the time we'd sleep under a tree in a park

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