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    Texas Hold 'Em, Kin, and Cloistered Nuns

    A pivotal poker game; a new mom’s road rage; a new birth and an impending death; and a Holocaust survivor recounts hiding with cloistered nuns during World War II.

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    Feb 12, 2017 • 1 min read

    Storytellers:

    • Annie Duke plays the most high-stakes poker game of her life, live on camera, in Las Vegas.

    • Stacy Keene learns that her grandfather is terminally ill just as she announces her first pregnancy.

    • Adam Fawer must bail his hot-headed wife out of jail after a traffic incident gets her arrested.

    • Flora Hogman (pictured) survives the Holocaust but loses her identity while hidden in a convent with nuns.

    Hosted by The Moth's producing director, Sarah Austin Jenness.

    Learn more or listen again to this week's episode, which originally aired May 26, 2013.

    Photo: Sarah Stacke

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