Family, Friendship, and Mother Nature
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A woman finds an unexpected new family when she adopts a son, a bad soldier learns to write from personal loss, and a man is working at a nuclear power plant when disaster strikes.
Jillian Lauren found a new family when adopting a son from Ethiopia.
Etgar Keret was an Israeli soldier who discovered the power of writing after losing a friend.
Carl Pillitteri experienced an earthquake from inside the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor.
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Jillian Lauren
![Jillian Lauren Extra](https://s3.amazonaws.com/themoth-story-images/Jillian-Lauren-Extra.jpg)
Jillian with her young son shortly after adoption.
![Jillian Lauren Extra 2](https://s3.amazonaws.com/themoth-story-images/Jillian-Lauren-Extra-2.jpg)
Jillian with her young son.
Etgar Keret
![Etgar Keret 1](https://s3.amazonaws.com/themoth-story-images/EtgarKeret-1.jpg)
Etgar as a young man.
Etgar Keret reads his short story βPipesβ.
Carl Pillitteri
![Inside Ikoi Post Quake](https://s3.amazonaws.com/themoth-story-images/Inside-IKOI-post-quake.jpg)
Inside Ikoi after the quake.
![Ikoi 1 465X311](https://s3.amazonaws.com/themoth-story-images/ikoi-1-465x311.jpg)
Carl in front of Ikoi restaurant when he returned to the exclusion zone on December 3, 2011, nine months after the earthquake.
The music in this story
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The Drift - Uncanny Valley
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Sam Sklair, Dan Selsick and Pops Mohammed - Ethiopian Lullaby
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Nigel Kennedy & The Kroke Band - Time 4 Time
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Eric Satie - Gnossienne 1 (Buddah Bar Remix)