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News I'm Terry Schultz in Lebanon anti-government protests heated up overnight in the capital leaving dozens of people injured and P.R.'s Lama is in Beirut where hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets for almost 2 months now demanding change overnight protesters clashed with security forces security forces used rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse the demonstrators and they say the protesters were throwing rocks at police around 46 people were taken to the hospital according to the Lebanese civil defense and Red Cross in Lebanon is facing one of its worst economic crises in decades and the protesters accuse the ruling class who've been in power for 3 decades of mismanagement and corruption lemonade again appearing in spirit officials in Bangladesh say at least 10 people were killed in a fire at a factory outside Bangladesh's capital today the 2nd deadly factory fire in the area and less than a week the fire broke out in the luxury fan factory in the Gaza poor area outside of Dhaka 10 bodies were recovered after firefighters brought the blaze under control this is n.p.r. News. Protests in India's capital turned violent today with demonstrators clashing with police and P.R.'s Lauren Frayer reports a controversial new citizenship law is it issue the protests began last week in India's diverse northeast where immigration is a sensitive issue people there worry the citizenship Amendment Act will allow migrants to dilute local culture and compete for jobs clashes with police there have left several people dead over the past week curfews have now been eased in the northeast and demonstrations have broke out in the capital New Delhi rioters burned a bus there this controversial new law is designed to offer refuge to persecuted religious minorities from neighboring countries but only if they're not Muslim and that exclusion has drawn allegations of discrimination opposition parties have asked India's Supreme Court to strike down the law Lauren Frayer n.p.r. 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Compaq's this is the mark Radio Hour I'm Jennifer Hudson the moth is true stories pulled from the headlines of someone's life all these true stories are told in front of a live audience with no notes in this hour dreams redemption flamenco boy scout party planning speeding tickets headless skeletons a little darkness and a lot of light you'll see. Our 1st story is from Auburn Sandstrom we discovered her at a mosque stories slam in Michigan here's offering Sandstrom telling her story live in Northampton Massachusetts where we partnered with New England Public Radio in. The year was 1992 and Arbor Michigan I'm curled up in a fetal position. On a filthy carpet in a very cluttered apartment and I'm in horrible withdraw all from a drug that I've been addicted to for several years now in my hand I have a little dilapidated piece of paper I've been folding it and unfolding at there's a phone number on it. And if you've ever had an anxiety attack that's what this felt like I'd been having like a nonstop anxiety attack for the last 5 years and I'd never been in a more dark or desperate place as that night and I would have just gone screaming out of there my husband was out running the streets trying to get a hold of some of that. Some of that stuff that we needed and I knew if he succeeded he was not going to share and if I. Could I would have jumped out of my own skin and run into the streets but right behind me in the room sleeping was my baby boy now I wasn't going to get mother of the Year Award in 1902. In fact at the age of 29 I was failing at a lot of things. It had started out fairly auspices Lee I was raised in comfort and privilege I was that girl who had the opera lessons who spoke fluent French who had her expensive undergraduate college paid for I was that person who when my checking account run out I would say something to my parents and $200.00 would magically appear I know when the revolution comes kill me 1st right. So I had the year abroad I was I had a master's degree I was you know pedigreed But as you get to. Your twenty's someone like me I ended up in Ann Arbor and I started noticing things like poverty and injustice and racism and it was it was a huge revelation to me and I came to the faulty conclusion. That the thing I needed to do with my privilege and all the comfort that I'd had all my life was to destroy it rip it in half spit on it and set it on fire you know every time I've made a major faulty conclusion the man comes right after that will help me live it out and this is. This was no different. Man he was beautiful 40 years old and a radical revolutionary fine ass poet from Detroit I'm 24 he's 40 and I was mitten in love It was so exciting who he was how he talked the way he looked at the world and. It was beautiful for a while until he introduced me to one his old activist friends who introduced us to the drug I was now addicted to and so I had tried to transform myself I wanted to shed my class I if I could have I would have shed my race instead of transformation you have me in Ann Arbor in 1992 going 90 miles an hour down I 94 with my poet with a car full of alcohol illegal drugs paraphernalia the babies in a car seat covered it's probably not a regulation car seat is covered in candy and chocolate because you have to keep the baby entertained while you're taking care of your business get yourself some relief. This particular night it was. It was bad because. If we were to have been pulled over one of those many times that we were going down that highway I was on parole he was on probation we would have both been locked up and our child would have been taken from us. So underneath my withdrawal and terrible anxiety was a sure knowledge that I was leading the life that was going to lead to me losing the most precious thing I'd ever had in my life. I was so desperate at that moment that I became willing. To punch the numbers into the phone. And the phone number was something my mother had sent me now mind you I hadn't been speaking to my parents or anybody else for 345 years but she'd managed to get this number to me in the mail and she said look this is a Christian counselor and since she can't talk to anybody else maybe sometime you could call this person I'm not trying to hang with any particular religion at this point but I'm so desperate and I'm so anxious and I'm in such a desperate state I was I'm a she had it covered in bruises. I punched in the numbers. I hear the phone pick up I I hear a man say hello and I say hi got this number from my mother do you think you could maybe talk to me and I heard him shuffling around in the bed like you know you could you could tell he was pulling some sheets around and sitting up and I heard a little radio in the background I had any snapped it often eat just became very present and he said yes yes yes what's going on. And I hadn't told anybody including myself the truth for a long long time. And I told him I wasn't feeling so good and that I was scared and that things had gotten pretty bad in my marriage and you know before long I started telling them other truths like I might have a drug problem and I really really love my husband and I wouldn't want you to say anything bad about him but he has hit me a few times and and there was a time when he pushed my child and me out into the cold and slammed the door behind us and then there was a time when we were going 60 miles an hour down the highway and he tried to push us to of a moving vehicle but I love him and don't say anything bad about him I started telling those truths and this man didn't judge me he just sat with me and was present and listened and had such a kindness and such a gentleness tell me more oh that must hurt oh and you know I've made that call probably 2 in the morning and he stayed with me the whole night until the sun rose and I was feeling calm. I was feeling Ok I was feeling you know I can do I can splash my face with water today and I can probably do this day. I would have cared if the guy was like a Hari Krishna or a Buddha it didn't matter to me what his faith was I was very grateful to him and so I said hey you know I really really appreciate you and what you've done for me tonight aren't you supposed to be telling me to read some Bible verses or something because that you know that be cool I'll do it you know I'm sorry and he laughed and he said I'm glad this was helpful to you and we talk some more and I brought it around again I said No really you're very very good at this I need to tell you how grateful I am How long have you been a Christian counselor and he said. Ok Auburn I've been trying to avoid this subject I need you right now not to hang up. That number you called wrong number I. I didn't hang up on him. I never learned his name never talked to me again I don't think I took in a visit vice but I need to tell you that the next day I experienced something that I've heard called peace that passes understanding because I had experienced that there was random love in the universe and that some of it was unconditional and that some of it was for me and I can't tell you that I got my life totally together that day but it became possible and it also became possible for me to take that sticky chocolate covered baby boy and raise him up into a young honor scholar athlete who graduated from Princeton University in 2013 with honors. This is what I know. In the deepest Blackest Night of despair and anxiety it only takes a pinhole of light and all of grace can come in. Thank you Ira. That was all been since. Done many great things for their life since that night she's won awards for her writing has a master's degree and a school principals license. She told me that telling this story healed something that 22 years of distance hadn't been able to touch it felt good to be proud of something from such a dark period in our life about the man on the other end of the line that night never heard from him again so we don't know who he was. Listening right now if you're listening right now if this story sounds familiar please get in touch with us at the moth org And to everyone out there who does stuff like picks up the phone to help strangers is a sympathetic thank you for the light that comes through the cracks. Our next story is by Rabbi Daniel Judson and involves the law not rabbinical lot but Boston traffic laws Rabbi Judson told it at an Open Mike Marts story slam where we partner with w g h and w b. Here is doing the drugs. I was really really late. And I was driving like I was kind of driving like a maniac and I was late for a Bible study actually sounds a little weird to say I'm a rabbi and. Had been a rabbi for about 3 weeks this was about 15 years ago so I look like I'm 20 now I look like I was 10. And it's right for about 3 weeks and this was the Sabbath this Saturday before the most important holiday here and I'm driving way to fast week checkouts police pulled me over about a mile from my synagogue. Please don't come back and I say thinking that this might be of some help and maybe I can slide my way out of this I say. I'm the rabbi of the synagogue about a mile up the road. And I'm going to Bible study. Policeman says looks like rabbis can speak camp and I lace is the registration release. And I actually don't carry my wallet on Saturday it's a long story we can skip it but I say. I don't care my wallet that I'm at least sorry about some religious sorry and he says though that's like rabbis can speed and think they don't have to carry a wallet sunset it is I. Goes back to his car it is the thing that pleased me to comes back he says circuit out of the car going to have to impound this vehicle. It's use me to get you have to get out the car I'm going to impound the spear go it's my God I hadn't changed over plates so I said what I think any man of the cloth would say at that particular moment. But the I and he says to me and your rabbi I am so like the good cop there's actually another the good cop says look you pay a $100.00 for something pay a $100.00 and we won't him you know you can drop the car off your synagogue and I said I remember the moneys is what it will take to do so they take me to this the synagogue that I'm the rabbi of and I'm in the back seat of a police car having been there for 3 weeks and someone told me later that night is living in Goldberg 85 years old who would come to my total Bible study every day for 10 years every 10 years she'd come she said this was you look at the Winter said oh look there's that nice you Rabbi coming in the back of a police car I hope it's not drugs or sets I collect the money I pay my car next day I'm in my office knock on the door or synagogue lawyer comes and fight it Rabbi fight it just say you don't know what you're doing and say he's going to not just fight it they won't press charges no I was speaking I really was he walks away. Diana Goldberg walks in the rabbi here's what I'm saying to you you're wearing a collar in this town that when it happened you know I'm saying Rabbi. I said really no I was speaking it's Ok I was speeding. Phone call Father Jacobs the physical a priest Dan I'm upset about this we should not have happened so really I was speeding so. I'm on the phone 3 days later with my with my mother actually who says honey that the holidays the holidays are coming I just want to see is that she died so make sure you're going somewhere that I said mom that I became a rabbi to you for your calling me to see if I'm going to synagogue on the hour as I came in and we had this conversation I'm going to be a rabbi you said lawyer I said Rabbi said lawyer I said Rabbi you said what will the weekly Bridge Club think I said I could care less what the rig you Scuse me I could care less what the weekly bridge club thinks and she said of course well at least the weekly bridge club calls me every week I. Phone call waiting. Down. Robert Jobson This is Sergeant Burke with so they can police department. So he says we need to come we need we need to talk to you so I put him on call waiting and I go back to my mother and I say to her what every mother mother wants to hear I got to go it's the police they're calling me to talk about something I. Certain Berkowitz and now I'm imagining a line up the kind of the police roll call that morning if he can police department is that kind of an Irish town imagine them running through the roll call who's going to call the rabbi this morning you know such an Callahan says I'm not there on it O'Brien says I'm not doing it Berkowitz Berkowitz probably or maybe Berkowitz I. I. So I can't go down to the police station. Sergeant Berkowitz is there says let's get rid of his ticket I said No I was really speeding he says Father Jacobs call me this woman is a not call me I am a voyeur call me by get it just bit it's Ok it's Ok. 7 years later I'm on the same strip. I'm late again the priest imposed me over rolls down the window asking for my license registration I started to say don't happen again and he says aren't you that rabbi have I he says. My buddy that day has been you just have a good night I said. He said God works in strange ways I. Was Rabbi traffic and Jensen is also a professor at Hebrew College rabbinical school in Newton Massachusetts he'd like you to know that this story took place a long time ago and these days he follows all the traffic laws he always wears his seat belt and while he doesn't carry his wallet on Saturdays to remind him not to spend any money he does carry his driver's license just in case. When we come back with the reporters Boy Scout camp and a 40th birthday party. 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The Moth Radio Hour continues on k c r w until 12 noon then stay tune for an lead in for royal compost to kick off the case here w weekend music mix That's ahead on k.c. r w K c r w sponsors include Landrover presenting for by far music and adventure festival January 18th and 19th featuring Anderson Pac Q-Tip and Mark Ronson with off road driving courses rock climbing yoga and more tickets at 4 x. Far dot com. This is the Moth Radio Hour from p.r. X. I'm Jennifer Hicks and this next story is from Terry McGrady She told in Miami where we partner with public radio station and the balance Here's Terry lived in Miami. My 1st real job at The Miami Herald was covering the graveyard shift on the police beat I was this chubby overprotected Cuban girl from Kendall and human girls . Who had. Pretty much everyone so who had you know managed to Forrest Gump her way into this really cool job and I spent the whole 1st year feeling like I was on a shaky ground so they sat me next to the 2 most veteran crime reporters of the newspaper on one side was Elaine dividing his brash and bold and whose default method of reporting was just like screaming into her phone in Spanish like if she was being burned at the stake by Fidel Castro's passion and then on the other side was Arnold Marco it's Arnie and or whits if you really really liked you and he was wild like a shock of white hair and his like white beard that would claw in frustration if someone is being especially are stupid and I was frequently both. And because Arnie was kind of hard of hearing he had rigged up his desk phone to this bright white light like the kind of thing a tugboat would need to navigate foggy conditions it was like ridiculous so every time the phone would ring the light would flash and my phase in our you would pick up the phone and scream Magu it's what you got. It was like terrifying but he was a legend unstoppable and scuba Bull every criminal and cop knew him and I was determined to impress him so that 1st summer Arnie gets a call a tip that there was a break in a cold case he had covered years ago decades there was a guy who had disappeared on the way to an Indian casino at the edge of the Everglades Arnie gets a tip that they found his car at the bottom of a canal off of chrome so he sends me out to go to the crime scene and see if they pulled any remains from the submerged car so I'm driving out to home said look in the middle of the night in the middle of a thunderstorm somehow managed to talk my way into the crime scene and I'm standing there like ankle deep in mud and they're winching up this old sedan and one of the cops opens the car door and sure enough it's a tangle of bones and muck and we didn't mention the bones. So. I scribble in my notebook and I get the hell out of there because by now it's like 10 minutes a deadline and I have to Carney so I feed only my phone is dead of course. So I am driving in like a blind panic in the rain just like completely unhinged praying for a pay phone number pay phones. And then I see like in the distance like Vaal hall in the distance Denny's with a payphone in front of it it's not like I screeched out like a maniac I jump out of the car and I run for the payphone and I notice out of the corner of my eyes group of pothead just kind of hanging out by the Chinese like pot heads but I don't even pay attention to them I throw my coins in the phone and I call Arnie he picks up Markowitz what you got and I tell him everything in the car the canal the bones but because our knees kind of hard of hearing I have to yell all of this at the top of my was so if you were like happens if you one of those pot has. That you know I'm a dark and stormy night this is what you would have seen a chubby Cuban girl from Kendall her legs caked in mud her eyes streaked with rain and tears a miscarriage wailing into a payphone like a banshee they found us but not us. Is God didn't come. So. I like to think that years later they still talk about me like those guys like bro remember that girl of Adanis. Yeah bro she told him murdered someone right. So. So the next day at work I get to my dad and there's a note on my keyboard that's just simply figure us want them to the craft sigh and. And it was the best love letter a man has ever written me. That was Terry Garrison getting Terry an r.t. For wits as we all know now have both since left the Miami Herald are now retired and Terry left after 15 years when she had kids but they stay in touch. On Facebook as for the headless skeleton in that car I'm not sure it right sounds not good. Next stop Todd Schaefer who comes to us through our Pittsburgh story slam who we partner with public radio station yesterday here's Todd strange. Right so I did something awful to my wife on her 40th birthday. The only thing she told me for 4th birthday was that she didn't want to party and I decided that was a perfect time to and I like to write my party planning skills and invite 85 people to our house for a surprise birthday party. So you know politically and I never ever planned anything like that before any of that scale any party planning. So it's really stressful when you're trying to get everything together and I was like it at the end of my rope because a surprise party is basically like a long format lie that you have to sustain up until you spring the surprise and see how it goes. And I thought I had everything under control pretty well like 3 days before the party I come home from work I walk in the door and I can see it in the kitchen which is a good thing I walk in the kitchen I walk in the kitchen and the wallpaper that had been on the wall that morning was like hanging strips and on the floor and she said you know there was a there was a piece of was loose and I was sick of the wallpaper and I decided to just take it down and then the 15 year old neighbor's daughter stand behind her mouth think oh my god. Like that's going to help. And just to make sure I run upstairs and hang myself she goes and you know I ordered 15 yards of mushroom a newer for the landscaping and it's going to be here any minute now I told to put it in the driveway. She said you know what I'm doing this we can we can paint the kitchen this is all you know for painting the kitchen this weekend maybe we don't need the mushroom a new or how about if I try to cancel that and of course it's too late so I have to run outside and it run out so I'm still in the suit I run outside I'm in the lot and that they come up next over the lawn mower running over bricks and rocks trying to make it spots at least the horse isn't like in the driveway where people have to walk through and come back in and she's got all the paint chips laid out on the counter she decided she wanted to paint the kitchen orange which normally I would oppose. It with every fiber of my being because orange is a safety color it's not a kitchen color and she said I just got so she's got all these laid out there she points she points to this hideous origin and I go that's that's great I'm going to get paid right now I really I I leave the back of the drive when I look over there and it's literally steaming there's this feeling not the oil that's it that's me. Marking me from the from the lot saying I'm a metaphor for the next few days here like. That I work that night so we're working on the kitchen and it's 11 o'clock and she doesn't want to go to bed night and I was totally strung out and exhausted but you know I'm 2nd when I think I'm at work so I stay up all night I work all night go to work the next morning come home start work on the kitchen and that night say thanks but I'm going to bed I said you know I am done doing all right I will stay up for a little bit and I work the entire night so the morning of the party the kitchen is done it's painted like this Horst Koehler orange. And so she leaves with a couple of her friends to go to this they go to the base thing right and I tell my kids and my kids knew that you want to party tell my kids we're having a surprise party for mom and my 8 year old immediately goes Mom I want to party where we have a party and you know and so I'm telling the truth to look for some for like a nano 2nd I thought it was a good idea and I started inviting people and it got completely out of control and that's how the last 2 world wars started and we're just going to do it. They're thinking I can tell that they're thinking my was going to kill that he was going to go to jail what are we going to do. I just I said just stop crying and Chloe help you. So. So it ends up she she ends up coming back like directly on time it happens to be the same time a late arriving guest is standing in the front yard holding a potted plant like inexplicable it's like looking for me and the catering truck pulls up at the same time and she still doesn't get that there's surprise party going and I like flying out the door. To work with the part about hey come on. And I walk and I asked the girls what's with that truck like they're going to know if they'll find out so I go over to him and I said it's a price party that's just be a surprise drive away. I what she does and I catch up to the back of the door we walk in and 85 people jump out and you know it's scream surprise and I could tell by the look on her face that she would have been happier if they would have like surprise continued past her and like spork to be into little bits that said and said We're leaving now we know you don't want to share. The party actually went really well my wife pretended to have a great time. Everybody everybody else did have a great time and I really thought I thought that you know that she would see how well the party was going and all her friends were there and that everything would be fine but she did really manage to hold a grudge to this very day. And I'm not kidding. But really really the the moral of the story is if you're going to have a surprise party this is really more a public service announcement a story for you have a surprise party don't do it there's more productive things you can do with your time you can volunteer help I have. Friends don't let friends have surprised. I. Haven't had shape he was in Pittsburgh with his wife their 3 kids and Todd's right spikes flips houses and volunteered with animals and he swears that he's retired from surprise party plans but his wife remain suspicious Todd's kitchen no longer i'm. On that story teller is my friend Ray Christian who told this story in Asheville North Carolina in Asheville we partner with the b c 2 s this story takes place in Virginia circa 1971 Tuesday morning the story includes approve a show for the theme of the evening but 1st here's a Christian I was the last boy in the troop to get his uniform I was the last boy in the troop to pay his $10.00 or go to the big camp gym greet out troop was the last one selected out all the troops in the whole state to go more than $200.00 troops all together. When we got there we were the only black troop there now as soon as you get there one of the 1st activities that you need to participate in is a swim and tests to swim and test the terms what activities you can participate in whether you can play with the boats whether you can swim alone go with the canoes or any kind of water activities at all everyone the boys in my troop fail a swim tests. I was the last kid and the last exercise and the only black here for the swim a test the last test was treading water I was treading water and I watched a scoutmaster lifeguard point to the different boys and say you can get out you can get out you can get out I tried to get out he said no no no you stay until another scoutmaster came up and he said to how long has he been in that water then he said to me you can get out well now I've got to swim a batch but it didn't work out well work with me. But it didn't quite work out the way I thought it would because every time I would show up to get a boat get a canoe get in the swimming pool I'd get yelled at hey stop let me see you swim a tag I would show and they would say oh and then I would walk away one time I was swimming in the pool by myself in the Deep in and I heard one of the scout master lifeguard yell out you you get out I want to get out I want to right now I thought there was a crocodile a snake snapping turtle and he was so frantic he jumped in a ward and he grabbed me by the arm and I said well it must be something dangerous because he's trying to pull me out he's trying to save me but I realize he wasn't trying to save me when he slapped me in my face and he said Nigga Who told you to get in the pool I'm 11 years old so I get out of the pool. One of the last activities they have a camp is do a mile swim I'm no only black boy scout out of thousands is even eligible to try out for it so I do I'm the last kid assigned to the last boat could each one of us about 10 in a group would have to swim beside this boat and if it in a point you could give up or anything like that you get inside the boat 10 boats they all move ahead on the last one we start going you have to make 3 rounds around his big lake the equal up to one mile as soon as we start on the 1st lap have to boys have already given up and gotten inside the boat on the 2nd lap I was being traumatized by all the boys in the boats who are yelling at me Come on man you don't need to do this give up stop Come on get out of it get out of the water getting a boat or get around to the last and final lap the 3rd lap I'm starting to get delirious and I see what appears to me as a slick in the water kind of looks like slime and cornmeal until I swim into it and I inadvertently take a gulp and I recognize a nearly what it is it tastes like powder days that we have been eating that morning. I wonder boys further up in front of me is sad he wanted to give it up the film which. Will work with you. So I'm still swim and we're getting closer to me in my arms start to feel like spaghetti can't move anymore but I can look away in front of me about 2 football lengths and I can see the other people starting to get out of the water I have so little imagery to laugh and the boys are still yelling at me coming you know cool stuff you know but I keep swimming and I'm so exhausted I can't even keep my open because I don't have that much straight less I close my eyes I keep on stroke and stroke and stroke and it seems like I'm not moving anywhere and all of a sudden I feel like a 1000 hands on me at once I'm snatched out the water and I see all these brown and everybody's yell and scream in an air tossed me up in the air and I'm yelling I'm crying and I'm so happy I'm not only black boy scout who had ever done it now. But in the big picture of things what I did it's not that important is not that significant I wasn't The Last Boy Scout to do it I was in the fast as I won the smartest one purchase but only that day in that place at that time one little black kid was 1st. A Christian is a retired paratrooper he lives in Boone North Carolina with his wife children dogs and chickens to see a picture of Ray's an 11 year old boy the same age he was in this story visit our website where you can also find a link to his podcast he drives a long way to get to them off story slam in Asheville North Carolina each month and it pays off at the time of this recording he's won something like 5 stories slams in our old unstoppable way. When we come back. A story about a little girl from Louisville Kentucky who falls in love with flamenco dancer. 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You're listening to the Moth Radio Hour from I'm Jennifer Hicks and our final story is from Mary for a long crooner Mary tell stories at the mosque stories slam at headliners in Louisville Kentucky here's Mary for a long primer live at the mom I grew up thinking that a life partner in a dance partner should be the same person thank you Fred and Ginger. I never had that much trouble fun of anybody to marry me. Until I gave it up myself as something of a youthful folly. Dance partners while not exactly plentiful or not totally absent either and these days even though now if I would like to dance bring out my most my cornpone Magnolia blossom x. And. Young Man I'm wondering if I could persuade you to bring some joy to my declining years. By dancing with me. Now I'm going to talk a lot about dancing I don't want you to think I'm really a good dancer a great dancer or anything I mean I can hear the beat usually. We can see that I am not possessed of that classic dancers body that makes us all wonder where they keep their internal organs. I grew up in Louisville Kentucky and in my generation gently reared young ladies were treated to tap and ballet lessons by their parents. Also in that parental pack each was attendance at the ballet and in our case in Louisville Kentucky once a year holds a Greco came through with his flamenco company and even then you could see a lot of flamenco dancing on the Ed Sullivan Show I completely fell in love with that type of dancing. The cast the net the fans the shawls the loud clacking of the feet and everything course she couldn't study it back then where I was from but I felt that somehow or other this was mine I just wanted to do that. And so when we had our dance re sidle and there was Dan's. In that recycle and it was given to another child. Who got to wear the black and red costume and probably could tell her right from her left. She was a better dancer I have to say but I was just devastated and the fact that I was 12 years old I'm still talking about it should. Kind of convince you that I'm serious about this whole flamenco thing. So how life happens you know 30 or 40 years pass the normal things you know I had a wonderful child I taught school and. You know things just go along and flamenco was on med distant shore and every now and then you see a little sun on t.v. Or in a movie and think yeah I remember how I used to feel about wanting to do that. Then when I was about 65 moving right along. I had a really rough time. I lost a little money I think a lot of people did. I retired and it felt very sudden to me. I met somebody who just knocked me off my perch I have to say and I thought what is going on you know I'm like becoming an old lady and I have this huge crush on this man who's just who seems to like me to my God you know I have the rest of my life figured out and this was not in it but that I have to worry because nothing ever really came of it it ended before it started now of course now harbor hook you know I'm like What am I going to do well no I'm a I own dear and so I have you know I was very depressed. And so you know that kind of falling is one thing but then I fell down the stairs too. Messed up my shoulder. I opened the freezer to get a frozen bottle of water out and it fell on my toe when I broke my toe and over the years you know I had the little dancing but now I was I just hurt and I showed her I told her my heart hurt I just you know obvious just really down and really sad. And even though all I in my depression and my weight gain and all that you know I knew the exercise was the answer to everything but I also knew I would think going to do it because. Because I just heart all over you know what was really a really difficult time I felt really old I felt spent I had this it was just a really difficult time. But you know time passes and I crawl up out of that hole somehow. Bought a Fitbit. I was always very reluctant in this area but I just push myself and force myself. So that I heard about this dance not too far from my house at this v.f.w. Post and it turns out and I was like the youngest person there. It was it really supposed to be a senior citizen the answer was disposed to be a day and so they just all got old you know. The ones who didn't die and and so they had this really big dance floor and you know this guy plays with live music not a band but live music I mean he's a live in. And. I didn't really expect they invited they had so with me and then finally this one lovely gentleman he's very nice he's 89 and. They're just so cute at that age. He started you know asking me to day and send criticize and my hairdo in. One night he said you know for a woman your age you don't really have all that many wrinkles. You know just sweep . I. Guess so you know that sort of motivated motivated me and then you know you get a low momentum goal in and one day I'm sitting in my house and I'm on Facebook and ping there's something on there from this girl I know she wasn't directing it at me she just said Well is there anybody out there who wants to teach the senior citizen fitness class at the y. We just can't find anybody to teach those people and messenger I said Take that down right now give me the number. You know I'm just thinking why not I had been I had actually attended a class a few years before and I thought I could probably maybe do that. Plus it would get my sorry self out of the house 2 days a week to classes on those 2 days she gave me the number and 2 days later I was hired though she said Now you know we have quite a bit of training you have to take c.p.r. And. Builds that thing I'm supposed in the name of you know the fibber later thing that they're hanging all over the place I learned how to please tell me please I hope everybody stand. Right now but. Anyway you know in Columbus Ohio take the Silver Sneakers training and Silver Sneakers are very strict you know you're dealing with a fragile demographic here and you know I have to remind them 3 times every class you know to drink water and I have to say the chairs if you need it and I have to delist of so finally they let me you know teach and so between the people on Sunday night the dancers on Sunday night and then my classes on Tuesday and Thursday I mean I'm supposed to be motivating them but I mean these people show up on the you know Rowley things and all that stuff and yes they do die but not in not in class. Yet but. But they you know the thing is it's not an activity that's taken them down it's something else because their dance and up to the end you know their work and out of to the end and acts on this I mean they're in their eighty's and ninety's I found this very inspiring So one day I was walking past flamenco Louisville we do have one of the finest will make schools in that whole that whole area and I thought to myself Ok I've got the money. I've got the time I believe I have the stamina and look where is the opportunity so I just went into flamenco Louisville and I said What's the story they said well we have a beginner beginner class. And I thought Don't you dare say it's 8 o'clock in the morning because even my love of flamenco I don't know if I could do that she sets 1 o'clock on Saturday so Asho it up at 1 o'clock on Saturday for the beginner beginner class that was September of 2000. 14 I'm still in the beginner b. In her class. You know you can't you don't get promoted until you learn a whole lot of stuff. But you know I mean. I'm committed progress not perfection I put that on the shirt progress not perfection and I never got worse at anything I practiced I didn't always get better. But I never I never got worse so every Saturday and sometimes every now and I have a private class paid for by the y.m.c.a. Salary. And I just go and when I go to Spain in 2 months time I will be going as a tourist but in my heart I will also be going as a dancer Thank you. Thank you Mary for one update on Mary's trip to Spain she loved it the food the people the scenery the flamenco all beautiful and then one night in Seville she has to be in a little pop up club during this big festival that happens in April there was a great flamenco band playing but nobody was dancing Finally she inquired isn't someone going to dance they invited her to try and even though she wasn't dressed for the occasion she was wearing crocs and an old black sweater which is basically flamenco blasphemy She worked up our courage and took the stage where she great there's no footage but she told me people really did go kind of crazy with clapping at the end so I'm going to go with this she was mind blowing we incredible all those years of yearning came together a dream born circa $1048.00 finally come true to see a picture of Mary wearing some of her proper flamenco garb because it's the moth award I hope you do because she's really good that's it for the Moth Radio Hour thank you for tuning in and hope you'll be back next week. 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