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    Cowboys, Green Beans and Jaguars

    A stuttering child becomes the world's premier jaguar expert; Texas moon pies and bedazzlers; a Harlem man at a rodeo; and a father copes with a son who loves pink.

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    Jun 8, 2014 • 1 min read

    Severely stuttering child Alan Rabinowitz years later becomes the world's premier jaguar expert. Faye Lane's Texas tale of moon pies and bedazzlers. Harlem's Rudy Rush (pictured) ends up at a rodeo in Oregon. And James Braley's way of coping with the color pink ad the son who loves it. The Moth's Artistic Director, Catherine Burns, hosts.

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    Banner image courtesy of Rudy Rush

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