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The Moth Radio Hour: Live and Learn

The Moth

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The Octopus of Birth

"I am terrified at the thought of not having another day with my wife or even just one day with my son," he writes. "Maybe my superpower shouldn't be planning for tomorrow, but loving them today so that there is no room to plan for tomorrow" The couple's son Gus was born by c-section after his mother suffered from severe preeclampsia.

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