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Ruby Cooper

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105 total appearances

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The Moth
The Moth Radio Hour: The Pursuit of Happiness

And I said, oh, what will happen is that the ferry will, we'll put the tooth under the pillow and a ferry will come at night and exchange it for money. And he looked at me like I was crazy. And he said, no, mine bring pie. Pie? The Tooth Fairy doesn't have pie. The Tooth Fairy has money. He said, mine bring pie. And I said, what kind of pie? And he said, chocolate.

The Moth
The Moth Radio Hour: The Pursuit of Happiness

And the following morning, the Tooth Fairy from the local bakery had delivered a chocolate pie. And Kirk loved to swim, loved the water. And so I would take, I would take the little, put the little Mae West out thingy on him, the vest, and I would jam him into a tractor trailer inner tube. and tie a rope on it. And I could, hey, I was a single mother, a teenage mother. Think about that.

The Moth
The Moth Radio Hour: The Pursuit of Happiness

And the following morning, the Tooth Fairy from the local bakery had delivered a chocolate pie. And Kirk loved to swim, loved the water. And so I would take, I would take the little, put the little Mae West out thingy on him, the vest, and I would jam him into a tractor trailer inner tube. and tie a rope on it. And I could, hey, I was a single mother, a teenage mother. Think about that.

The Moth
The Moth Radio Hour: The Pursuit of Happiness

And the following morning, the Tooth Fairy from the local bakery had delivered a chocolate pie. And Kirk loved to swim, loved the water. And so I would take, I would take the little, put the little Mae West out thingy on him, the vest, and I would jam him into a tractor trailer inner tube. and tie a rope on it. And I could, hey, I was a single mother, a teenage mother. Think about that.

The Moth
The Moth Radio Hour: The Pursuit of Happiness

And I would drop him into any body of water, you know, and he could paddle around and I could pull him in with a rope. Listen. Nothing happened to him, for God's sake. And so one time we were on a little lake in my friend's ski boat, and he was watching us. There were just two women and him, and girls, teenagers. And finally he just had enough of it, and he said, I want to ski.

The Moth
The Moth Radio Hour: The Pursuit of Happiness

And I would drop him into any body of water, you know, and he could paddle around and I could pull him in with a rope. Listen. Nothing happened to him, for God's sake. And so one time we were on a little lake in my friend's ski boat, and he was watching us. There were just two women and him, and girls, teenagers. And finally he just had enough of it, and he said, I want to ski.

The Moth
The Moth Radio Hour: The Pursuit of Happiness

And I would drop him into any body of water, you know, and he could paddle around and I could pull him in with a rope. Listen. Nothing happened to him, for God's sake. And so one time we were on a little lake in my friend's ski boat, and he was watching us. There were just two women and him, and girls, teenagers. And finally he just had enough of it, and he said, I want to ski.

The Moth
The Moth Radio Hour: The Pursuit of Happiness

And we looked at each other and said, why not? So we dropped him over the back of the boat, and Janie's driving, and she drove along real slow, and he's having a really good time and laughing, and then she revved it up. And he's just like, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. And we're just having a great time. We got back to the beach, and this...

The Moth
The Moth Radio Hour: The Pursuit of Happiness

And we looked at each other and said, why not? So we dropped him over the back of the boat, and Janie's driving, and she drove along real slow, and he's having a really good time and laughing, and then she revved it up. And he's just like, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. And we're just having a great time. We got back to the beach, and this...

The Moth
The Moth Radio Hour: The Pursuit of Happiness

And we looked at each other and said, why not? So we dropped him over the back of the boat, and Janie's driving, and she drove along real slow, and he's having a really good time and laughing, and then she revved it up. And he's just like, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. And we're just having a great time. We got back to the beach, and this...

The Moth
The Moth Radio Hour: The Pursuit of Happiness

I don't know, big, old, punchy, red-faced guy stomped over there to us and said, I saw you out there with that baby just pulling it along. You endangered his life, and I should have the authorities come and take him away from you. And I said, fuck you. We're just having fun. And Kirk said, yeah. And you're no fun at all. Well, Kirk grew into a young man.

The Moth
The Moth Radio Hour: The Pursuit of Happiness

I don't know, big, old, punchy, red-faced guy stomped over there to us and said, I saw you out there with that baby just pulling it along. You endangered his life, and I should have the authorities come and take him away from you. And I said, fuck you. We're just having fun. And Kirk said, yeah. And you're no fun at all. Well, Kirk grew into a young man.

The Moth
The Moth Radio Hour: The Pursuit of Happiness

I don't know, big, old, punchy, red-faced guy stomped over there to us and said, I saw you out there with that baby just pulling it along. You endangered his life, and I should have the authorities come and take him away from you. And I said, fuck you. We're just having fun. And Kirk said, yeah. And you're no fun at all. Well, Kirk grew into a young man.

The Moth
The Moth Radio Hour: The Pursuit of Happiness

When he was 22 years old, I moved him into a group home close by where we lived in California. And He met a bunch, five, six guys that had different varying disabilities. And they would spend their time just talking and hanging out. And most of the conversation was about girls and how to meet them and about sex.

The Moth
The Moth Radio Hour: The Pursuit of Happiness

When he was 22 years old, I moved him into a group home close by where we lived in California. And He met a bunch, five, six guys that had different varying disabilities. And they would spend their time just talking and hanging out. And most of the conversation was about girls and how to meet them and about sex.

The Moth
The Moth Radio Hour: The Pursuit of Happiness

When he was 22 years old, I moved him into a group home close by where we lived in California. And He met a bunch, five, six guys that had different varying disabilities. And they would spend their time just talking and hanging out. And most of the conversation was about girls and how to meet them and about sex.

The Moth
The Moth Radio Hour: The Pursuit of Happiness

And I would come and visit, and they would have come up with these schemes for me to get involved in. And I said, no, no, not at all. I am not, no. And I would leave and go home and forget about it.

The Moth
The Moth Radio Hour: The Pursuit of Happiness

And I would come and visit, and they would have come up with these schemes for me to get involved in. And I said, no, no, not at all. I am not, no. And I would leave and go home and forget about it.

The Moth
The Moth Radio Hour: The Pursuit of Happiness

And I would come and visit, and they would have come up with these schemes for me to get involved in. And I said, no, no, not at all. I am not, no. And I would leave and go home and forget about it.

The Moth
The Moth Radio Hour: The Pursuit of Happiness

And that year, about a couple months before Christmas, I called Kirk and I said, hey, your sisters and I are wondering, Christmas is coming up, and we're wondering if there's anything special that you would like to have for Christmas. And he said, I want to have sex. I said, sex? Sex is not a Christmas present. Videos and stinky cologne and sweaters and shit you don't need, that's Christmas.