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Welcome to the moth podcast. I'm your host for this week cake tellers

Life is all about compromises and some are easier reach than others

So this week our stories are about striking a deal

Battering negotiating shaking hands all of it up first is Denise Bledsoe's slaughter

Denise told this at a DC stories slam where the theme of the night was beg borrow steel

Here's Denise live at the moth. Okay, first of all I want to say that I'm gonna strangle my friend J.R. Who talked me into doing this?

So you all support murder

Murder

Thank you

I am 66 years old

And this brief story is about my time in grad school in Providence, Rhode Island. I went to grad school at Brown University

I worked very proudly now at UDC this the University of the District of Columbia and I thought that on today

I have a story that reflects both borrowing and begging and

In the spirit of Martin Luther King and why can't we all just get along?

This is a brief story about Pearl Wolf one of my two Jewish mothers

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