Vijai Nathan tells her true tale about fitting in, family, and pizza. Told live at SpeakeasyDC's open mic storytelling series. Vijai is a stand-up comedian and solo performer. Her latest solo show is "McGoddess: Big Macs, Karma, & the American Dream". Vijai is also an instructor for SpeakeasyDC's storytelling classes.

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This piece is part of our StoryDocs series which we will post from time to time. These are stories that are not performed live, but recorded on-location and produced like a radio story.

This story was produced by Alix Blair about her friend Matthew McCue. Matt tells his story about going from a gung-ho solidier in the Iraq war to a peace-loving farmer. Visit www.farmervetco.org for info about the Farmer Veteran Coalition Project.

Alix Blair works as an independent audio producer and photographer and has recently finished collaborating on a multi-year project about migrant agriculture workers in North Carolina with the Center for Documentary Studies and Student Action with Farmworkers. Currently, when not working on documentary projects, she farms with a friend on one acre of land next to the ocean.  

Todd Bowers told this story at SpeakeasyDC's monthly open mic on the theme "Game Over: Stories about Death Dying and the Afterlife".

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Mike Boyd shares the tale of his near death experience while wearing a large bird suit on the White House lawn. This story was told live at  SpeakeasyDC's monthly showcase of true tales in Washington, DC. The theme that night was "Parallel Universe: Stories about Alternate Lives, What Ifs, & Flip Sides".   Mike is a graduate of SpeakeasyDC's one-day Storyelling Boot Camp, a PR consultant, and much loved volunteer for SpeakeasyDC.

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This was recorded live at SpeakeasyDC's monthly open mic storytelling series. The theme was Eureka: Stories about Epiphanies, Discoveries and Other Lightbulb Moments. This was Tabbie's first-time on the SpeakeasyDC stage. She later became part of the cast of Revenge of the Cat-Headed Baby and Other True Tales of Life and Death, a SpeakeasyDC production performed as part of the 2008 Capital Fringe Festival. By day, Tabbie works for the Peace Corps.

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David de la Cruz tells his sordid true tale of monkeys gone bad. Recorded live at SpeakeasyDC's storytelling open mic in Washington, DC. The theme for the night was "Going Home: Stories about Returns, Reunions, and Regression."

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