This is the Moth Radio Hour.
I'm Jennifer Hickson.
In this hour, we'll be hearing from and about brothers.
Although he's eight years older than me,
my brother was around for all of my growing up
because he needed my mother's basement for band practice.
Because of him, our house was always filled with rock and roll and people and parties.
But perhaps the greatest gift He pushed all the boundaries.
He was the classic partying older brother,
involved in all sorts of mischief, thereby making my transgressions seem mild.
For instance, when he was just 13,
he borrowed the keys to my mother's Ford Country Squire station wagon and crashed it into the neighbor's yard,
a block or two away.
So the getting in trouble bar was high.
My sister and I cruised through adolescence in his wide, wide wake.
Guess Ma, I'm late for curfew, but good news, I didn't wreck the car.
he made it so much easier for us.
Our first story is about an older brother and an unspoken truth.
It was told at the Housing Works bookstore in Manhattan,
where Public Radio Station WNYC is a media partner.