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    Beauty Queens, the LBJ Library, and Holdups

    A small town girl from Alabama attends charm school and gets ‘discovered’; a Texas romance is thwarted by religion; and a teenage hotel clerk comes of age, at gunpoint.

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    Aug 13, 2017 • 1 min read

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    Tricia Coburn attends Miss Macy's Charm School and eventually lands a modeling gig.

    Sara Bird (pictured) finds solace from heartbreak as a librarian at the LBJ LIbrary.

    John Lincoln is robbed twice while working the front desk of a hotel.

    Hosted by Ophira Eisenberg and Moth Radio Hour producer, Jay Allison.

    • Learn more or listen again to this week's episode,which originally aired October 13, 2013.

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