
The Moth Radio Hour: In Famiglia
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The Importance of Being a Man
"There is no correct answer to this question. I've thought about this for nine years," he says. "From that moment I said that I stepped up and that's the moment I became a man ... But the truth is I was a coward." The father-to-be worked two jobs, hid his tears at friends' expense in an effort to keep from being seen as 'a failure' He learned more of what it takes to be a man in those first 19 seconds than he did in previous 19 years.
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