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The Moth Podcast: Timeless Love
That was Steve Glickman. Steve is a lifelong Chicagoan and storyteller. He recently retired from a career in software engineering and now spends his time teaching digital literacy to adults and getting eight hours of sleep a night. He lives in the uptown neighborhood of Chicago with his partner Mark and their imaginary dog, Ruffles. For more on Steve, check out our show notes.
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The Moth Podcast: Timeless Love
we wanted to check in on how steve's dad was doing steve said dad's symptoms have worsened over the past couple of years and he's no longer conversational but he loves listening to music and can recognize his favorite songs from the 1950s and 60s mom and dad still live at home and share a bed to see a photo of steve's parents on their wedding day just go to our website themoth.org extras
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The Moth Podcast: Timeless Love
That's it for this episode. From all of us here at The Moth, we hope that you find love wherever and whenever you can.
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The Moth Podcast: Timeless Love
Welcome to the Moth Podcast. I'm Kate Tellers, and on this episode, timeless love. To celebrate Valentine's Day, we'll be exploring first loves and last loves. Loves that last a lifetime and loves that fade away after a few days. Our first story is about first love. Tate Russell told this at a Twin Cities Grand Slam where the theme of the night was crash course. Here's Tate live at the Moth.
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The Moth Podcast: Timeless Love
That was Tate Russell. Tate is an admission counselor at Case Western Reserve University, singer with the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, and the proud holder of an 1,800-day streak on Duolingo. He also founded his own storytelling club, Off the Cuff, during his undergraduate years at Carleton College. We were curious to see if Tate and his ex ever reconnected after their Music Man performance.
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The Moth Podcast: Timeless Love
Tate said that this show was actually the second time that she and I had played opposite of one another as exes. We had done Annie together, where she played Annie and I played Mr. Warbucks, a story for another time. After the Music Man, we did go our separate ways and never really reconnected post-graduation.
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The Moth Podcast: Timeless Love
I continue to do theater, and I'm happy to say that since then, I have had no romantic history with any of my onstage partners. We wanted to hear from you about the first time you fell in love. So, inspired by the prompt slips we give out at our Story Slams, we sent out a request on social media for super short stories about the first time you fell in love.
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The Moth Podcast: Timeless Love
Here are some of our favorites, along with some memories from the Moth staff.
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The Moth Podcast: Timeless Love
If you're wondering about my first love, I'll tell you about my first reciprocal love. We were in college, very innocent, and we loved each other very much. We were so uncomfortable talking about our feelings to each other that we took to writing in a journal that we passed back and forth to each other when we were together.
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The Moth Podcast: Timeless Love
Unfortunately, ultimately he realized that he was more attracted to men than he was to me and went on to marry a man, as did I. Despite all of this, he performed my wedding as well as my sister's and my father's second wedding. And we both consider each other to be one of the great love stories of our lives.
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The Moth Podcast: Timeless Love
If you'd like to tell your own story, either on stage or via a slip, you can always go to one of our story slams. Check out themoth.org slash events to find one of them near you. You can also always follow us on social media. We're on TikTok and Instagram at Moth Stories. We'll be back in a second with another story about love.
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The Moth Podcast: Timeless Love
Welcome back. On this episode, we're exploring the theme of timeless love. And our next story is all about what can happen when you spend your entire life with someone. Steve Glickman told this at a Chicago Story Slam where the theme was Love Hurts. Here's Steve live at the Moth.