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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

I mean, I like adventure, and I like to do things. And he was with me on it. It was like, all right, now let's go.

The Moth
The Moth Radio Hour: The Pursuit of Happiness

Oh, they say, I wish you were my mother. Oh. Men say that to me, would say that to me a lot. I've had people come up and cry. The first time I ever told it was at the cemetery, Greenview?

The Moth
The Moth Radio Hour: The Pursuit of Happiness

Oh, they say, I wish you were my mother. Oh. Men say that to me, would say that to me a lot. I've had people come up and cry. The first time I ever told it was at the cemetery, Greenview?

The Moth
The Moth Radio Hour: The Pursuit of Happiness

Oh, they say, I wish you were my mother. Oh. Men say that to me, would say that to me a lot. I've had people come up and cry. The first time I ever told it was at the cemetery, Greenview?

The Moth
The Moth Radio Hour: The Pursuit of Happiness

Greenwood. And this woman came up hugging me. And I guess her first cousin had cerebral palsy. And she said his mother kept him there. cloistered in the house all the time. He never got to do anything. And she said, I just thought about him the whole time of what life could have been like for him.

The Moth
The Moth Radio Hour: The Pursuit of Happiness

Greenwood. And this woman came up hugging me. And I guess her first cousin had cerebral palsy. And she said his mother kept him there. cloistered in the house all the time. He never got to do anything. And she said, I just thought about him the whole time of what life could have been like for him.

The Moth
The Moth Radio Hour: The Pursuit of Happiness

Greenwood. And this woman came up hugging me. And I guess her first cousin had cerebral palsy. And she said his mother kept him there. cloistered in the house all the time. He never got to do anything. And she said, I just thought about him the whole time of what life could have been like for him.

The Moth
The Moth Radio Hour: The Pursuit of Happiness

The disability is not who they are. Who they are is inside. It doesn't, that's not, we take, we spend too much time worrying about what people look like and what they can do. My mother said to me when I was crying, when I was told he would be quadriplegic and they wanted to put him in the home, and I refused. And I said, I don't know what I'm going to do.

The Moth
The Moth Radio Hour: The Pursuit of Happiness

The disability is not who they are. Who they are is inside. It doesn't, that's not, we take, we spend too much time worrying about what people look like and what they can do. My mother said to me when I was crying, when I was told he would be quadriplegic and they wanted to put him in the home, and I refused. And I said, I don't know what I'm going to do.

The Moth
The Moth Radio Hour: The Pursuit of Happiness

The disability is not who they are. Who they are is inside. It doesn't, that's not, we take, we spend too much time worrying about what people look like and what they can do. My mother said to me when I was crying, when I was told he would be quadriplegic and they wanted to put him in the home, and I refused. And I said, I don't know what I'm going to do.

The Moth
The Moth Radio Hour: The Pursuit of Happiness

I don't know what this will be like or anything. And she said, you don't need to know what it is. It's just you have a baby. She said, we don't love him. for what he will do or won't do. We love him because he is ours.

The Moth
The Moth Radio Hour: The Pursuit of Happiness

I don't know what this will be like or anything. And she said, you don't need to know what it is. It's just you have a baby. She said, we don't love him. for what he will do or won't do. We love him because he is ours.

The Moth
The Moth Radio Hour: The Pursuit of Happiness

I don't know what this will be like or anything. And she said, you don't need to know what it is. It's just you have a baby. She said, we don't love him. for what he will do or won't do. We love him because he is ours.

The Moth
The Moth Radio Hour: The Pursuit of Happiness

Isn't it?

The Moth
The Moth Radio Hour: The Pursuit of Happiness

Isn't it?

The Moth
The Moth Radio Hour: The Pursuit of Happiness

Isn't it?

The Moth
The Moth Radio Hour: The Pursuit of Happiness

They were like, I don't know, the tongue in the shoe. You know, I mean, they were just so close. I have a picture of, that makes me cry practically. I have it in a frame, but I don't have it where I see it all the time because it's too emotional. She's old. She's sitting at the edge of a pool, and she has had a couple surgeries, so she's a little on the crooked side. He's crooked.

The Moth
The Moth Radio Hour: The Pursuit of Happiness

They were like, I don't know, the tongue in the shoe. You know, I mean, they were just so close. I have a picture of, that makes me cry practically. I have it in a frame, but I don't have it where I see it all the time because it's too emotional. She's old. She's sitting at the edge of a pool, and she has had a couple surgeries, so she's a little on the crooked side. He's crooked.

The Moth
The Moth Radio Hour: The Pursuit of Happiness

They were like, I don't know, the tongue in the shoe. You know, I mean, they were just so close. I have a picture of, that makes me cry practically. I have it in a frame, but I don't have it where I see it all the time because it's too emotional. She's old. She's sitting at the edge of a pool, and she has had a couple surgeries, so she's a little on the crooked side. He's crooked.

The Moth
The Moth Radio Hour: The Pursuit of Happiness

He's in his, you know, she's got her arm around him, and there they are. They've been swimming, and now they're sitting together at the edge of the pool. I have a picture of them She, I guess he was on his beanbag or something, and she leaned down and kissed him. And I got a real close-up picture of her just kissing him. She loved him. He loved her.