The Moth

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Kevin’s first love rewrites his poems and musings on onion skin as a gift and binds them together into the novel that wasn’t. 

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Kevin Wilson

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Kevin Wilson: Out of Print

Original Air Date

November 2, 2009

Recorded Date

October 1, 2009

“I thought since I was in love and being eighteen and having invented love for the first time of course, I should write her some poems”

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