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ForestParkReview.com Vol. 108, No. 1
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REVIEW JANUARY 8, 2025
She tells grandslam stories
Recently featured on WBEZ’s Moth Radio Hour, Rohde helps launch the Forest Park Arts Alliance Tellers Night
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By JESSICA MORDACQ Staff Reporter
Forest Parker Susan Rohde has a childhood memory of playing a wiffle ball game in a vacant Arlington Heights lot. Though she wasn’t very athletic, she got a hit. But she was so distracted by her success that, when the next batter smacked a fly ball, she stepped off second base to catch it for the other team. “There’s this fight breaking out over whether that should count for one or two outs because those rules have not been written yet in baseball,” Rohde tells the audience at a Moth StorySLAM, drawing a laugh from the room in the recording of her performance. Although Rohde didn’t win The Moth StorySLAM – a weekly event where attendees have the chance to tell a personal five-minute story related to that evening’s theme – she was asked for permission to share her story on WBEZ’s Moth Radio Hour. “I was beside myself excited,” Rohde said. When her story aired Dec. 7 at 5 p.m., Rohde listened live with friends at St. Bernardine, where she attends church, and they played her story over the See STORYTELLER on page 3
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