The Moth

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Returning home to small-town Indiana, a young woman finds work caring for an unlikely (and challenging) patient.

Tags Failure Race Adversity Mental health Workplace Empowering Healing Medicine Civil Rights Kindness of strangers Serious Moving Inspiring Sad Hopeful Thought-provoking Bittersweet Wistful Local Tragic

Storyteller

Stephanie Summerville

Featured on

May 9, 2008 Gang Initiations, My Way and the KKK

Recorded Date

February 21, 2007

“What better job for a depressed person than to have a job that's just sitting? That's all I had to do.”

Photo by Sandra L. Dyas
Stephanie Summerville

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