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The Moth Radio Hour: All the World's a Stage

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The Importance of Memoirs

"We saw an idling pugio 504 at the entrance with three men inside it. The car had two antennae, one in the front and one in the back," she says. "I was so scared that my spirit left my body and clung to a corner of the ceiling" In 1990 the dictatorship ended but Pinochet's neoliberal economy remained intact. I ended up getting divorced and moving back to Canada. But the question always remained. What had I imagined? What was real?"

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