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No Butterflies at the Moth
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The best read on the city.
[18] LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 2.12 he place was packed, everybody
ready to hear me tell a story. Yes, me. I was at Headliners Music
Hall to participate in the Moth, a live storytelling event that started in New York in the late 1990s and recently made its way to Louisville. Te theme that night, which I knew ahead of time, was "neighborhoods." I had prepared a story about my
family's old Brooklyn block, filled with Russian immigrants, Orthodox Jews and us yuppies. Life there had
been nonstop culture shock. For ex- ample, there was every kind of canned fish but no salsa. Cats weren't allowed in our building so we smuggled ours in via a meowing cardboard box. Also, our upstairs neighbor would sing Bal- kan karaoke all night long. During breaks at a bank where I
work, I wrote my story, practicing it just a few times so I could remain spontaneous. At Headliners, I was third. Onstage I inhaled once, deeply, and began:
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