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498: The One Thing You're Not Supposed To Do
Act Three

Out of the Woods

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Ben Loory reads his short story about an unlikely friendship that forms between a moose and a man. It's from his fiction collection Stories for the Nighttime and Some for the Day. (8 minutes)

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Ben Loory

Song:

“Woke Up This Morning (Theme from The Sopranos)” by Alabama 3

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