Long as you just play these hands I promise you you'll do Ok and he handed me this napkin and a 100. And he sent me across the street to the Fremont next step the Moth Radio Hour I'm Sara Austin genomes in this hour we'll hear from a lady poker player up against 9 men trying to win a 2000000 dollar jackpot a woman who remembers being hidden as a child during the Holocaust and a husband tells us of his wife's superhuman temper and so she walks over the car and with crazy old postpartum strength rips off the side view mirror and throws it on the ground and said No were in that story and more coming up next on the Moth Radio Hour from the Public Radio Exchange org right after this . Live from n.p.r. News in Washington Stevens 14 former CIA directors and deputies are criticizing President Trump's decision to revoke the security clearance for x. 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This is the Moth Radio Hour I'm sorry assed engine s. From the mob and I'll be your host this time. At the mall people tell a true stories from their lives they stand on stage in bars clubs and theaters and they tell these stories without notes to audiences all around the country this hour we'll have 4 stories for you a woman in her seventy's tells us of hiding with cloistered nuns as a child during World War 2 a husband is forced to bring his wife a breast pump in prison a young mom sneaks her son into a hospital room to meet his great grandpa before it's too late and Annie Duke tells our 1st story. In 2004 any Duke was the only female player invited to compete in a $2000000.00 winner take all no limit Texas Hold'em poker tournament if you've never played Texas Hold'em here's all you need to know each player is dealt 2 cards face down they are called hole cards 2 aces are the best possible combination followed by kings queens jacks and then 2 ten's players need to decide based on how good their hole cards are whether to continue in a hand to see more cards this tournament of champions was televised and it was the 1st time and his hole cards were exposed to the public any mistakes you made would be on display for the whole world to see. Here's any do you live with. It's 2004. And playing in a $2000000.00 winner take all poker tournament called the Tournament of Champions. And I have 2 tans and I have to decide whether to put the last of my remaining chips into the pot and risk getting knocked out. And I've already taken 15 seconds with this decision and it's just way too long I see in poker you make these very complex mathematical calculations these very deep reads of your opponents and you have to do it all very quickly because there's 10 people at this table and the action needs to keep moving along so 15 seconds in poker is an eternity. But I'm having tremendous difficulty with this decision and there's a few reasons why the 1st is that $2000000.00 is just by far the largest amount of money that I have ever played for in my life and in fact earlier in the year in 2004 I had won a World Series of poker championship a bracelet and I had only one about 150000 so $2000000.00 just was putting a lot of pressure on me. But the 2nd reason and the more important reason for me was that this was the 1st time that I'd played on television with these new little lipstick cameras that they were putting in the rail of the table that could see your hole cards and expose them to the world and this was causing me a lot of difficulty in thinking about this hand you see e.s.p.n. And Harrah's World Series of Poker had invited what they said was the 10 best players in the world to come together and play this winner take all $2000000.00 championship against each other on television and I was there among these 9 great players 5 of whom were hall of famers in the knock on me was that I was only there because I was a woman that while I was good I wasn't actually one of the best players in the world and that I didn't deserve to be there because e.s.p.n. Had just decided that since women were a novelty and poker would be really good to have a woman at the table and in 2004 I was in fact the winningest woman in the history of the World Series at that time so I was just the logical choice if they were going to put a woman there but I actually didn't deserve to be there and that the problem for me was that I. I actually believe them and so for the 1st time as I'm sitting here trying to decide whether to put my money in this pot with these 2 tans and risk getting knocked out I realize that my mistakes might be exposed to the world and I might prove all my critics right and this 30 seconds have passed I looked over at my brother and my brother at that time and and still actually was one of the best players in the world and he too had been invited to this table to play this big tournament and I looked over at him and I just couldn't figure out how my life had gotten hairy say about a decade before when I was still in graduate school and living on a graduate student stipend and I couldn't really afford to go on a vacation my brother had offered to fly me out to Las Vegas while he was playing in the World Series of Poker and put me up at the Golden Nugget for 2 weeks which is just like the most luxurious place I'd ever been at the time. And he brought me out for this vacation and we're sitting here after midnight in the basement coffee shop of Binion's Horseshoe Casino kind of a rundown casino on on Fremont Street with its western decor and you might say well why are you there after midnight eating and the reason is that after midnight they actually had a $1.99 states special. So for a $1.99 you got a steak and a salad and a vegetable and a roll and this was really awesome for someone who was living on a graduate student stipend so that's why we're there my brother was eating with me and he asked me how my vacation was going he actually asked me if I was having any fun and I said to him in fact actually I'm kind of bored my brother was playing poker all day at the World Series because he at that time was already one of the best players in the world and you couldn't really watch poker back then there was a rail and it was just hard to watch so that wasn't any fun for me and I really don't enjoy gambling which I know sounds kind of because I'm a program player it sounds kind of crazy but actually poker is very different than gambling and I didn't enjoy things like back or hour or craps or anything like that and actually one night my brother's friends had kindly offered to sort of take on the burden of his sister and her tame and take me over to glitter Goltz which is the C.D.'s stripped you've ever seen down on 3 months 3 Casino and somehow seeing naked women grind their breasts against my brother's friends was not only fun but slightly uncomfortable and unnerving so I didn't really want to repeat that experience so so I just said to him I really I kind of don't have anything to do and he said well why aren't you playing poker you watch me play so much poker so I don't really know if I know what to do Howard and he took one of those little black Keno crayons out of the well that you fill the cards out with and he took his napkin from the table and he wrote down all the 2 card starting hands I was allowed to enter the pot with he said as long as you just play these hands I promise you you'll do Ok and he handed me this napkin and $100.00. And he sent me across the street clutching the napkin to the Fremont scieno which if anybody's in there makes Binion's look like the Taj Mahal. At that time the nicest restaurant in the Fremont was a Carl's Jr. So so I went in there and I played this $1.03 game and I actually won $300.00 That trip was like a lot of money and very soon after that I kind of caught the poker bug and I left graduate school to pursue a life as a professional poker player and I just I loved the life because it was so anonymous and people would ask me they'd say well what do you do for a living and I said well I play poker for a living and they'd say oh where do you deal I say No no I I don't deal cards to people I actually play and they say oh what does your husband do and I thought well actually he stays at home I support the family and usually the conversation would devolve into something about the damn the merits of Gamblers Anonymous. And. Which has a lot of merit but I don't think for me but I love that I loved that people didn't understand what I did and that I was eccentric because I valued eccentricities so much and and I loved that nobody was going to know who I was and I was doing this in private on the margins of society because at that time nobody in poker for have imagined that you know e.s.p.n. Would be airing this big thing that you know 3000000 people might watch because we were just poke poker players but but the other thing that was so great about what I did was that I wasn't the only one who was anonymous my cards were anonymous so I was the only one who can see could see them because they were face down which meant that I went when I made mistakes I was the only one who saw them and that was kind of good and bad because as I started to find success I was on my way at that point to be in sort of the winning as women in poker you know during the ninety's people start to say you know she seems to be pretty good she seems to have a lot of talent that felt really good for people to be saying those nice things about me but all I saw while I was playing was my own mistakes and so what what has went along with that was that I started to feel just a little bit like a fraud in fact I started to feel a lot like a fraud so now here I am with these 2 ten's at this table and 45 seconds has pass and I'm so afraid that the world is going to now find out what I already know about myself which is that I'm a fraud. And I'm trying to make this poker decision and one of the other problems for me is that I'm against this guy named Greg Raymer and Greg Raymer I had open the pot with these 2 ten's and he had pushed all his chips in and he has more than I do so I'm trying to make this decision whether to risk all my chips against this guy and and I just really don't know anything about him because he's just come on the scene a few months before nobody had ever heard of him and all of a sudden he won the main event of the World Series of Poker in July of that year so I've never actually played a hand of poker with him and the only thing I really know about him is that his nickname is the fossil man. And the reason I call the fossil man is because he plays with these fossils as his card protectors he sticks them on top of his carts and the thing I know is that if you manage to knock him out which is completely impossible on this and so if you are tips that he has but if at some point during the tournament I could knock him out I know that he'll give me one of these fossils which you know in comparison to the $2000000.00 prize not really what I'm trying to win but I guess would be something so I really just have no idea how to how to figure out what he hasn't and the poker decision itself should actually be quite easy I've got to ten's and if he has a hand like aces or kings I'm actually just supposed to fold because those are much better than my hand and if he has a hand like an ace or king I'm supposed to call but I'm having trouble focusing on the poker in a 60 seconds has passed at this table I hear somebody myself actually as if it's a visit someone else outside of my body apologizing to this table of these 9 great players these 5 Hall of Famers my brother saying I'm so sorry I know I'm taking too long but this is just a really hard decision. And what I know is that the other people at the table think that the hard decision is the poker decision but what I know is that the hard decision is that I'm so afraid of making a mistake and I can't decide whether I'm just making a decision about trying not to lose so I can last with my little bit of chips and not be the 1st one out so everybody will know that I really didn't deserve to be there and as I'm trying to figure this out I looked over at my brother my mentor trying to find some sort of solace trying to find some sort of way out of what was going on in my head and in that moment I remembered that we had watched Raymer playing the main event on t.v. That week they had actually just started airing at the week before we came in to play this and we had seeing Greg Raymer play a hand against a guy named Mike my name Mike Madison and my brother had had pointed out in a hand where Greg had a really good hand that Greg did something there was something he did called to tell the Telegraph that his hand was really good and as I was looking at my brother I suddenly remembered this and I looked back over. And I saw him do that thing that my brother had pointed out when he had watched him on television and I knew in that moment that he had to have a really good hand he had to have those aces or kings and that I could easily fold my tens because it was the right poker choice and I did it confidently but the problem was that this was the hand right before dinner which meant that we were now going to have to get up from the table all 10 of us and we're going to have to go out and sort of take an hour me with my little bit of chips left and as we were walking out the door to go take our hour break Phil Hellmuth 12 time world champion Phil Hellmuth the poker brat 6 by towering over me reader of soul says to me. And I know you had to have jacks or tens on that hand don't you know Raymer had to have Ace King it was totally obvious to me and all the confidence that I had found in that hand just seconds before just went out of me and I was left for an hour in my room at the Rio ruminating filled with self-doubt that while I might have fooled myself into thinking I was a good making a good poker decision at the time that clearly I had just made a decision to try not to lose so that I wouldn't prove anybody right so I came back to the table after what seemed like an eternity and clearly with no focus with no ability to really feel like I could be playing well but the great thing in poker is that sometimes the cards save you from yourself they save you from your own self-doubt you just get really good cards that really just aren't hard to play because you just kind of win every hand and that's actually what happened to me I came back and I had 2 queens against on a chance to weights and I won this really big pot and and then I actually had a really big hand against great grammar where I took a lot of his chips and and I wasn't the 1st one out of the tournament or the 2nd one out of the tournament or the 3rd one out or even the 4th one out or the 5th one and now all of a sudden we're 5 people left in a torrent the tournament I get in this huge pot against Greg Raymer the fossil man the person who put me to such a difficult decision earlier and this time I have more chips than he does and we get all the money in and I actually knocked Greg Raymer out and he picks up his fossil. And he brings it around to me and as he hands me this fossil my gift for knocking him out of the tournament. He whispers in my ear and I know the hand you had earlier was really hard for you and I want you to know that I had 2 kings and you made a really good fold. Thank . You and that moment Greg Raymer gave me not just the gift of the fossil but the gift of my confidence back and in that moment I realized that I could start playing to win again and now we were 4 people left and I had the most chips and the next one out was Johnny Chan and then actually it was just 3 handed me my brother and Phil Hellmuth and I got a huge hand against my brother and actually knocked my own brother out of the tournament he's sitting right over there and. And you might say like how did you I kid you not your own for about a tournament in fact 3 weeks later when the tournament aired the minute after that hand aired on television my mother called me up. How did you not president of this drug and I said Well then I don't know who your favorite is. Would your rather him knocked me out Mom. But anyway my brother was actually he wasn't happy for himself but he was happy for me because he taught me how to play and he taught me how to play hard and he would have expect me to play just as hard against him as anybody else and I suppose if he was going to lose all of his chips he probably was happy he lost them to me and as he was getting out to go out of the room he came around to give me a big hug he said and here you're really playing great now just beat Phil. So now I was heads up against Phil Hellmuth the thief of my confidence. And I got in a big pot with him when I had more chips and I king 10 and he had $1018.00 and I won the hand and I actually beat fell to collect the $2000000.00 prize in the tournament. To collect the $2000000.00 prize in the tournament that no one thought I even deserve to be at. And now when people ask me what the most important hand of poker I ever played in my life is I don't say it was the king 10 that I beat Phil Hellmuth with to win that big prize. I say it was the 2 tans that I found such a difficult fold with because sometimes it's not the really big things that you do that get you there when it's the really big things that you don't do. Thank you. That was Annie Duke. As in 2011 and he had won over $4000000.00 playing poker she lives in Los Angeles with her 4 kids and she runs poker tournaments raising money for charities including Refugees International. For the list of pairs her brother told her she could bid on in case you want to try your hand in texas hold em go to the monster. In a moment we'll be back with 2 shorter stories from our open mike story slam series Road Rage lands an art historian in jail and a man tries to stay alive to see the birth of his great grandson was a. 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I'm sorry to join us the next story is from Stacy Keene She told at a moth story slam in Pittsburgh at ma story slams people show up names going to happen 10 tellers get picked and have 5 minutes to tell a story only one teller is declared a winner we partner with local public radio stations all around the country to make these open mike stories Slam events happen thanks to w e s a n w y e p for their support of our Pittsburgh Syrians each story Slim has a theme the night we met Stacy the feeling is my parents. So my 1st true love was my grandpa and you know he really set the precedent for every other man I ever considered loving he was clever but really modest and brave but quiet you know and so when I was an adult and I found out the great news that I was pregnant with my 1st child that the 1st person I wanted to tell was my grandpa. Except that he had just found out a week before that he had 4 weeks to live. And. The phone Holl was the same as every other phone. I got good news and I told him and his response was well Boop see you go put your feet up and have a glass of milk and you give your old grandpa a call tomorrow. And that started this beautiful tradition of every night calls to make him father was pregnant and. You know I'm very aware of the fact that he's defying the odds every night when I call him and he's still there to take the car and hear about my condition and tell me about you know when my grandma was pregnant with her kids or when my mom was little or you know the stories he laughed the most about where when he told me about me in my. And. The responsibility of keeping that lifeline going was really heavy a beautiful i appreciated it and. About a week before. My last month he ended up going to the hospital and I went into premature labor that night. And. Well I was giving birth in the room literally the room below him at school on June 29th 1907. He was holding on and I was bringing my son into world. And the next day. You know I smuggled information with my sister up to him that night it's a boy he's going to show your middle name and you know. She came down and said Oh he really wants to see him so the next morning my mom came in and she had like a bag full of clothes for the baby some for me I could give you and I talked to her and she said Get your sister yet so she's just saying we're going to close and wrapping him in a blanket she's like we're going up stairs climbing so she holds on to her again as if somehow you know she's not going to get caught by the nurses. And I'm wearing a hat sweat suit that doesn't really fit us what he said to be you can't hide. We're walking past the nurse's station and I know that you know I am they know me intimately you know. And I just look at them like please don't say anything and for some reason they didn't and my mom and my baby and my sister and me. Snuck up stairs to see my grandpa and he held Morgan and he whispered some things to them and he told me he was proud of me you know. He laughed until he himself because he kind of because he smuggled my son up to see him is like I'm so glad you guys didn't deviate acts for you have you know acts for me and so it's a funny and beautiful situation and went back down to my room and apologized to the nurses and they scolded me cried at the same time and so the next day my grandfather and I were both discharged from the hospital I was going home just start my new life with my new child and he was going home that I. And. After you passed away I really miss those stories that we used to tell on the phone while I was pregnant and the last story that I got to hear was from my mom it was about him . And. She said hey you know I think grandpa would want you to know this now. 2 days before he heard that you were pregnant he had decided to. To go is here with assisted suicide because he had been living with cancer for so long and that he had been given 4 weeks to live and decided that he didn't want to suffer of last 4 weeks and then you came to him and said you know Gram become pregnant and he was like a minute and stayed for 9 months I'm going to do this I'm going to stay alive and see make great grandchild and be there for my granddaughter and his doctors thought he was ridiculous be crazy but he did you know and he died the day I got my son and . Now I know that he loves me as much as I have of him. That is Stacy after the story Stacy said I could have one more conversation with my grandpa I would tell him that I see him and my son every day then I would tell him that I made on the mall and everything I know about storytelling I go to him. For a photo of Stacy her grandpa and her son all together go to the mall or. Next step at a fower Adam told the story about his firecracker wife at a story slam in New York sometimes a hot temper can be pretty attractive here is Adam Fallon live to talk. Ok so it's about 4 years ago 4 years ago middle of November I'm on the d. Train crossing over the Manhattan Bridge and my cell phone rings so it's that time when you have like 3 minutes of coverage and I look down at my phone and it's my wife and it was one of those days where like I couldn't remember why we hated each other but we definitely hated each other and we had a 6 week old that and a 19 month old at home and for you kids out there 19 months between kids is too close. So sleep was low tensions were high so I pick up the phone and I don't know if she's going to yell at me or what and like what and she said I think I'm about to be arrested. And I'm like What did you do. My wife is this great person and she she says she's 52 she's an art historian and put She has this in crazy temper and I know she loves me and she says and I love you and that means only hate you 17 percent of the time so in her students literally wrote in Columbia if you have a choice of taking our inhumanities from Dr or Ghengis Khan go with Ganga's. So. So I'm like really worried I'm like What did you do what did you do I only have 3 minutes I'm about to go into the tunnel so she's like so is going to my car my car was parked I see this truck coming around the corner and it takes off my side view mirror and I was like and she said No I was trying to go to work because she had a terrible maternity policy and she had a teacher like 4 more classes starting the next day before getting Christmas break off so so she's like so I get to my car and I follow the driver and he goes back to this garage and and I'm like What did you do what did you do and she's like he gets out and he talks to this like big brushing guy and the Russians guys like. I won't pay for your new Mir but I'll replace it n.o.p. Block and she's like no I want you to go to my garage and pay for my Mir And he's like No no no it'll be black it'll be fine we'll be even and I'm like What did you do. So then she says so so then this car comes and it's this big Mercedes and this woman gets out with all jewels and everything else like that she goes and kisses the guy in the cheek and she says to the guy and in at this point she had already called the police she's like I'm calling the police so she called the place so and then at this point she says to the guy is that your wife and she says and he says yeah and I'm like What did you do Meredith what did you do and and he said and she says is that your car and he said yeah so she walks over the car and with crazy whole Clark post-partum strength rips off the side view mirror. And throws it on the ground and said Now were even an. And then the police come. And I'm like. So and then I go into the tunnel an and I'm like. So I popped out of the tunnel and I met with forestry and I'm like and I color back and she's like hold on I'm talking to the police and like so her phone I think it's like down by our side and I'm screaming like pay for the mirror pay for the mirror pay for the mare and she can hear me and I hang up and I try to call back and she told me like what precinct she'd be in. When she got arrested. So so I'm trying to call her back doesn't pick up and I'm like and I'm still from the night before but I can remember why so I go to lunch with my friend. So I so I. I finished lunch and then I'm like oh right and I told my wife again I think I said Brian I think I have to bill my wife out of jail. So I pub on the subway in Brooklyn at and go into the precinct and I go there and she's there but like they won't let me see her and I'm like is she Ok and use like outside because she like you know she's Columbia art historian like Ok and use like yeah she's all alone I was like she crying it's a little bit but she's Ok so my current So long story short I I call my friend who's like at the New York Post because I'm like I don't know any criminal attorneys so so 1st she hooks up with this she was like so she makes a whole bunch of calls for me and the cop in told me if you don't get her out by 11 o'clock tonight she has to stay the night in like lock up in downtown Brooklyn so I'm like and the next day she has to teach class and I'm like This is bad. And I don't know who to call to tell them that my wife's in jail so so so the 1st tourney my friend at The Post talks who she only knows people involved in the news so the 1st guy it's like. He's the guy who got out the mob but the cops there were killing for the mob it's going to be $25000.00 to get her out that night next guy is like a rapist attorney 15000 to get her out that night I finally talk to her and she's like call this guy Josh used to be my boyfriend he'll get me out so. So. So and I talk to Josh and he's like he's like Ok you got to get her down to lock up and she's breastfeeding our baby so I have to go down to the police station and you haven't lived until you've brought your wife a breast pump and seen are led by you by 2 female cops in handcuffs and I'm like hey honey she's Ok so I got the milk back and I got her out and like. I got her out at like 1040 that night and and I'm like honey I got you out I had like I did all this stuff and I called her ex-boyfriend all these other lawyers and then she looks to me and she's like I could've done the time. That was. And is an Internet entrepreneur. It's now. 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I'm sorry assed engine asked from them off our next and final story was told by Flora Hogg men at a mosque night called who'd wink stories of fooling and being fooled we found Flora through Facing History in organization that combat's racism and anti-Semitism through education programs worldwide Flora was a hidden child during the Holocaust and the 1st part of this story takes place in 1943 during World War 2 Flora was born Jewish she's an only child at the start of the war she and her mother were living in France where her mother thought it was safe her memories of her mother are limited we came to this I think it was in 1989 and she started to work as a year seamstress and she should resupply youngest son a writer and associate to make a living after the war in rem back to the apartment that found the the box with all the threads Richards was sort of moving I asked floor if she remembered the day the Germans invaded nice and I remember when they arrive I mean it was terrible we're standing on the street for 3 hours they were marked rolling around you know on the pavement with a huge black shiny boots and it was pretty scary soon after the Germans took nice Flora's mother brought her to an underground transport and handed her to a stranger who saved her life that's where the story starts here's for a heart. Well we are changing times this is very different story I'm sort of preparing your. It's 1943. Nice for I don't it's in the middle of the war the Germans have just invaded the. 7 years old. I'm sitting and standing there exactly on the platform of a train with my mother. A very tall man with a long black hero approaches us. And my mother gives moved to heaven. And then she remember how we said goodbye but I never saw her again. The tall man deposits me in some very strange place. I was in a room in front of me there were a bunch of iron bars and her huge tall woman behind the bar or there welcoming me in the house of God she presented herself as Mother Superior and the others as sisters was all pretty strange to me and they had these very long robes and hats like wings. I see myself in a small well orderly garden sort of roaming around among a bunch of children all somewhat I was just ghosts like me when done talk to each other. But mostly I discovered the roof of the convent it was a flat roof and here the sisters where walking around and around and around all day with their long row sweeping the floor their hands up in the air praying I was always looking at the sky and they never looked down at me or us I who of course wanted Miss You know the affection of my mother. I remember when the change my name suddenly from through high you then I became No I was boring as x. You in chorus the kind of course I had no idea what either was where is unwise and I actually didn't faze me somehow I did it didn't register at that moment and then . Suddenly one day water was part of in my hand and I was told I was a child of God and then I learned the rosary Now the good thing about the rosary that it finally provided a source of entertainment for all the children who were there roaming around and we all under rosary and we decided who could do it faster and I still know it today I'm not very well. Anyway. Suddenly one night the sisters nuns I guess of the year for guess there were nuns. Brought us all together very quickly we had to leave they said left me very quickly there was nothing to explain anything and they sort of threw us all in the covered truck and one of them was inspecting my suitcase and find with horror I mean with a great to suck that my mother had them burden one name on each of my clothing. And she said Oh my that's terrible it's very dangerous and should proceed it to rip off each stress over this thread's from all of my closing as I was looking in horror and I started to scream and they got very angry at me because it was very things of course and I was despondent I this was the work of love of my mother this was my connection to her and with the is. Broidery gone how could anybody ever know my name and I had lost my name I didn't know who I was I was completely meaningless. Years past. The war and then I was adopted I. Changed the name and I became for a man after having been through high I mean excuse me Matt you know through high level. And I was up and the war somehow receded in the back of my mind like on another planet My mother also became like a very thing ghost which with each name change became further in a way from my your awareness. I didn't even think about the idea of being a father because he had died when I was 2 years old or 15000000000. And I didn't suddenly remember and it was such a long time ago. In 1058. I was in nice at that time I was working at the Scandinavian Airlines. One morning a young man comes in and asks. For Arthur So I said yes that's me so she says Son so and I looked at him course had in our year who he was and he repeated his name in it still looked at him. And his father then went to speak with him he almost left and suddenly I finally realized the ciphering through his thick American accent This was my blood cousin my from my mother's side had come from America I almost fainted I frankly didn't know what it meant to have a cousin but it is a source of pride and I could post about it in a cousin from America how many people have that. And I. Was there. Sir. In any case I asked him I said How did you find me. Apparently his mother who knew that after the war had been abducted and I was in South of France and had been absolutely no connection this is another story which I can't get into today when her son finally wants to go back to were yet to visit where he came for and she said Go and find Florence southern France and all going France for in southern France anyway. So he was walking you know there are things that are meant to be and that's the story I'm telling you now. He was walking on the boulevard look behind Paris and he saw a store that said the house of nice in Paris so just for the fun of it he walked in the girl at the canter You know Flora 100 and she said yes she's one of my best friends. And that's how I came to America. I. Anyway so I had this really amazing encounter didley me to come to America where I started a new life and it also led me and then years later when actually I was in my late thirty's to find mine I'm calling on my mother's side in Israel. We met at the larch airport. My uncle recognized me from a childhood photograph and I from his large smile and clearly wife came to me and you know I'm braced me in tears. They had prepared a wonderful meal for me in their tiny apartment and of course it didn't take very long before we start to talk about my mother finally I could say what was she like . My Uncle Henri says she was a brat she was a you know. And she didn't you know she tried to teach me the piano she was older than him and she was such a pain in the neck. But she was a she was a romantic an artist and she spent a lot of the time in Italy and she said the reason she was able to do that is because she had to unmarried uncles and they were his uncles too but the who just you know just gave her money which sucked that was he was very critical of this and then it goes unsaid I don't know how she managed through all these tragedies and to find a way to save you and with great sorrow he said he is thinking and talking about my mother's death and I wish with. Then there was certainly I remember the letters there were all these check letters that we had found in the apartment in nice when we had gone there after the war with my adoptive parents. Of course I totally forgot about them but I had always taken them with me everywhere I went and suddenly here I could have them translated so I'm called Henri translates as the letter and one of them is a program to my father who it just that it's there and I and the poem reads I've been given print special permission to read it. How strange that you died just now in the middle of your life we laughed together the 3 of us and now we are only 2. Has strange that you died so young and good with me we brought we planned to produce to contrive to snatch up you and I How strange that you died and still are living and I was here and love you so much and kiss your daily your child and I. And I have what I forgot to tell you before this is after my uncle told me. All these stories suddenly you know it's like my mother had become a real person I had just remembered her at this very unhappy stoic wonderful ghost very sad all the time and here she was a real person she was a brat. And after the poem it was even more I mean now suddenly I found myself I was a person with a family a father and the mother suddenly had found who I was where I belonged and also I had felt much more about my mother who was a real person with a real life. A. Few Years passed and then I continued my search into my past and this time I decided to go back to the convent which I had here and believe your recall then have very positive feelings about In fact I hated them and somehow I connected them to the death of my mother but general which they had saved me and so I decided to go back and say thank you. I walked and and of course Mother Superior was behind her girlhood but as soon as she heard me this them she opened the door and she said Flora but I remember hearing she had such a beautiful name she was a novice at the time and she was one of the ones who were walking around the roof and she said you know we're not allowed to look at you but we listen hence she said which we prayed for you all the time it's amazing it had never occurred to me and she said so few of you came back and she looked so sad and so we both embraced each other. And for the 1st time I felt that I could cry about my mother with her and that the same time to say thank you to her that she had helped save my life I mean. That. These memories are thank you but in the last 3 years she's worked to piece her life together as best she can. She found out that the man her mother gave her to that night in France was moved by d. He dressed as a priest but actually he was a Jewish actor from Syria who had come to knees to escape the Germans he is credited with saving over 500 Jewish children during World War 2 Flora was hidden in a total of 5 places during the war in her life she's had 4 names my 1st name was Flo he left for a high level man a 2nd name was. And that was my war name and I was supposed to be born in course the car. Yet and that. I was on no where there could be anybody called me mad you know not but they were supposed to be my name and then I became for a moment after the war and afterwards I became Florida man when I was adopted. Do you feel more connected to one name or the other. Well you know in a certain way. She connected to any of the names to be honest. Flora sundered up by telling me I was 1st Jewish then Catholic and when I was adopted after the war I was Buddhist and then Protestant now I'm an atheist and a clinical psychologist. After the war when 4 I went back to her mother's apartment in the East she found a photo of them together taken in 1942 in the French countryside to see that photo and to hear the rest of my interview with Flora go to the mosque dot org While you're there you can pitches your own story all of the stories you've heard this hour are valuable at that i Tunes store just search for the best of the mom. That's it for the Moth Radio Hour hope you'll join us next time and that's the story from the moth. 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