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There's this year we are celebrating our twenty fifth anniversary: that's twenty five years of uncovering what it means to be human understanding, each other, better and building community through true personal stories, in order to ensure that the moth continues to thrive for another twenty five years and beyond were raising twenty five thousand dollars during the month of March. If you can give ten dollars fifteen dollars or even twenty five dollars, we would be so grateful text Moth twenty five to four one for four four or visit them off dot org, to make your donation today, and we thank you from the bottom of our hearts- welcome to them off what cost I'm your host for this week, Jody Paolo this, so it is all about city living. There's of common rephrase. You probably heard about the lifestyle is expensive. crowded. Take it from a New York City resident there. All true

You might even be able to hear some of the noise in this recording. What not so easy to put in a neat list. Are the moments that keep us in the city the joy that springs up every once in a while to remind you why you came here in the first place so or two nor is this week, are all about fighting that beauty in the case of the city or first, the this week is David Brown David, this story, Slum in Boston, where the him up night was voyage. Here's David live at them off, so I moved to Boston. Twenty years ago I moved from the walkie whiskey soon to take a job at Channel five. As a morning meteorologist, I had never been to Boston before I moved here I believe right now. The Boston is frickin awesome. Twenty years ago I did

even know what frickin an awesome put together. What that meant. On Paper Milwaukee in Boston are the same same population both cold and snowy in no its beer and brought beer and Fenway francs in Boston, Both are located by large bodies of water, both have great tv series. their Laverne and surely, and cheers, for everyone knows your name, so what I thought so a loaded up my shiver labour right up. I got my trip, ticks and I drove all the way to Massachusetts. It wasn't until I After the rotary at a wife off a route to. then I realized the Boston and walk you're. Nothing like That rotary and I got cut off and slipped off and mouth off all by a real pretty young woman driving evolving with two car seats in the bow,

see the baby on board a twenty six point: two sticker and this car went about Washington sticker. All TAT was a cheese head sitting in the front seat. My first six months at work. What kind of tough The hours were brutally and to get up at two o clock in the morning. Wasn't used to that this, but he's in Wisconsin. They are hard to say because their hard to say it's like economy, walk, walk ashore manner to Menomonee fall Sheboygan. Please here alright cities here are tough to say I don't know why, but it's like Peabody Peabody, Puberty Wester, the Boston, Harold, would call me a weather him bow. It was hard. I didn't quite warm up to the the viewers they would.

all up and say: hey David, my mother luxury, or my sister heather- thinks you're hot. But Why are you always wrong? Yes, sock seriously,. How can I get a job at which I'm always wrong and care to keep my job? no seriously. I want that job and always in the phone call with you not from here. Are you and that winter and it was the winner of ninety ninety five. Ninety six, it broke all records, so by March I was ready to leave, but instead I got a two week. All expenses paid all

loose of trip to Jamaica, Jamaica Plain on March twenty Eightth I drove to work normally felt like hell. I drove away from work at four o clock in the afternoon and instead of going home, I went to the Falkland Hospital because I just knew something deep inside wasn't right park. My car I ran in and I started getting violently ill. They took me into emergency room and this woman says to me, give a sore neck and they only coming next been killing me at tat point everybody starts to throw on the white surgical masks and she says. We think you have that terrorism and enjoyed is unlike what and at that point I felt like I was a foreigner in a country in which I didn't even know the language, because bacterial meningitis is a inflammation of them and energy the spinal cord and around your brain, and they were ask any questions like where are you from which you name? What you were you

and I knew the answers are trying to say it. But all that came out of my mouth was gibberish and then they said we can give you a spinal tap, and at that point I didn't hear anything except the doctors say the last person that came to Faulkner with meningitis died. We don't want to be all for two. So I woke up- and I looked around and I Was in a different room and I saw people that look different, but they all had that white surgical mask in this woman walked over to me and I looked up at her and I said MA am what are you doing here? She says I've been here since Friday and I'm like. What's today, it's Tuesday, like you, ve gotta, be kidding. I missed the Boston heralds headline same local weatherman prompts meningitis Scare

I missed the reporting on my station. I miss the reporting in the globe, but what I got to learn that week is really true Bostonians, the nurse that took the overnight shift, so she could be at home during the day for her kids, Doktor came a glut began in the infectious disease doctor who nurse me back to health. I got a get well card from Dick and whale into whether watcher. For thirty years I got another card from she'll magnolia. I got a card from run and loon and bird. I got a card for Mayor Menino, but I also got homemade cards from school kids that just said the weatherman Faulkner Hospital, because I'd gone to their school and I went back to work after a couple of weeks.

On April 15th, one thousand nine hundred and ninety six, which was the 100th running of the Boston Marathon and I got to broadcast, live from the top of Heartbreak Hill, and I saw the runners coming up for the very first time and I knew and they knew the exact same thing and that was Boston is free Thank you that was David Brown, David spent. Eighteen years, forecasting the weather W Davy Tv Boston. Currently David, is the chief. If advancement officer at the message, sits association for the blind and visually impaired. He over. These their Boston Marathon team team, with a vision, Largest team of blind runners incited guides to see

some photos of David from his days as a weatherman man had tour website the moth dot org, slash extras up next is run disk, Randy told this Louisville story, slam where the theme of the night was happy, here's Randy live at them off. It was my first summer as a New York City, school teacher and enjoying a lazy day at home. My roommates we're out working when the power went out. I wasn't that worried until I heard on the radio that there was this massive blackout affecting the entire northeast and that some suspected terrorism like many new Yorkers I'd live through nine eleven and I wasn't sure that I could stomach that again. Plus I had. This boyfriend Dave, who was worth gaining an a skyscraper on Wall Street not to unlike the twin towers, so

Really I got on the phone and I doubt his work number, but the called it and go through at this point I would have called his cell phone, but Dave had this theory that having a cell phone made, you accessible to others, twenty four, seven in essence, making new society slave he didn't have one, so I thought my self, alternating between hating, my fucking boyfriends fucking. That's for not having a fucking cellphones because brought with this guy and then that's one now and then to God that my fucking boyfriend was alive. I knew that wise thing to do is just sit at home and wait there in case he came, there are called, but I'm just too see for that, so I started taking walks in my east village. Neighbourhood first just shortly call John's around the block. But every time I pass by Pretty my building and I didn't see, him my heart sank, deeper and deeper into my

stomach. So I took longer and longer walks in the heat, and I thought about Dave and me. I was twenty seven Davis, thirty one and we for each other's first major relationship. We came for these families, where our parents communicated by either ignoring each other or cheating. Each other or screaming at each other, beating the crap out of each other. So we really have background knowledge as to how a healthy relationship should work. We were terrified of commitment and we ve been together for a year and a half that we dated like we're in high school, seeing each other, maybe once or twice a week we didn't have keys to each other's places. Wittingly toothbrushes over, we said I love you. There is always a catch and our voice like I know you can fuck me over it. Appoint someone I gotta get to invest in this guy, and one could have done me if he was dead then I had, I spent a year and a half of my life

keeping someone at arm's length rather than this being happy. Sweat was starting to pool under my breasts, and I was getting that film. The women know what I'm talking about and knows. I was getting that film that you get on your skin in New York in the summer. So it's time to go home and when I rounded the core, That last time there he was sitting on my keep looking more adorable than ever. He stood up and we ran to each other like in the movies and we hugs fiercely, and then we did something we'd never done before. We just gazed lovingly into each other's eyes. It was our most intimate act to date and then His story when the power went out here. doesn't take any chances. He went down thirty flights of stairs rather than risking the elevator, and then he walked twenty blocks to my party. in the heat in a suit, because the subway wasn't working and because he was as worried about me as I was about him

We are both to getting to just sit still, so we just kept walking all around the city and little by little we got the full report that was not terrorism. Just a black out. You know Opponents were handing out free food rather than letting it wrought people are just drinking beer is outside. We saw the Sky rollerblade downstream buck naked and everywhere you look to new Yorkers. These jaded new Yorkers were shit. Eating grins on their faces night started to fall. We headed to Tomkins Square Park. we're bonfires and drums circles and people camping out in the grass. We walk through the crowd. Stopping intermittently. It doesn't make outer dance holding hands so tightly the sweat dripped from our fingers, and then I had the idea that we should look up at the sky and I was right there. Amidst the black ghost the buildings, we could see the stars in New York City, and on that night you could even seem Mars. We headed back to my apartment. My bedroom face the street

I'm on the first floor, so normally that meant that I kept my window and my curtain shut tight, but that night I just open them up. Why to the world we live in bed. Listening to the voice so, the passers by and typically conversations were loud drunken obnoxious, but that night everyone whispered has. If everything were sacred, we had absolutely the best sacks of our lives, two dates. spend some good times since an enemy, Passed out in that inky darkness. a year later we were living. Together in Brooklyn, but day brought me back to that stoop to propose to me I guess is there that we learned a really important lesson. Happiness is fine, because it's so unpredictable,

you know you never know when it's gonna come crashing around. You, like those two towers, did that one day, but if you don't give in to those sweet moments that can happen at random than life really isn't worth living anyway. Thank you. that was roundly scouts. Randy is a middle school language, arts teacher and storyteller, based in Louisville Kentucky shield Competing in stories, lands and sluggish her way through riding a memorial for New York City years. Randy also produces storytelling, showing podcast called double edged stories Their husband, David Sir, shook together they are called. for instance, to store worthy kids to see Some photos are Randy indeed, from the time in your city had to our website them off dot. Org, that's all for this,

we hope these stories, reminding you that no matter where you choose to spend your days in the city, the country, or somewhere in between. There is magic to be found on till next time. from all of us here at them off have a story. A worthy weak Jody power is a producer on the marksmen stage in story. Slim teams Jody also directs and teaches with our community and education teams. She says this art that ignites her is that moment with a storyteller, is centre stage and you can feel the audience listening.

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