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Alone: A Love Story

Chapter 1: Not if, how

Alone: A Love Story

CBC

Society & Culture

4.62.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2017

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

On the cusp of her 39th birthday, recently divorced Michelle struggles with a complicated new romance. A drunken tarot card reading returns her to 1999, when she first met The Scientist (soon to be The Husband) and all was filled with promise.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:05.4

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0:11.6

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0:15.6

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0:18.4

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0:21.4

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0:25.7

IBS diarrhea aged 18 plus always read the label.

0:31.4

This is a CBC podcast.

0:34.3

You're listening to a loan, a love story, and I'm Michelle Parisi.

0:39.5

Chapter one. Not if. How?

0:43.1

Loss.

1:02.5

So here I am on the edge of 39.

1:07.1

Petsulent, drunk, and obsessed with a charming, but frustrating man in a white shirt and perfect jeans.

1:15.5

I'm taking my 1 millionth fancy cocktail and stumbling down a hallway to go see a tarot card reader.

1:23.0

My friends all rolled their eyes, but I like the idea of someone telling me who I am and what

1:28.1

my path is based on randomly turned up cards because seriously, fuck defy now these days.

1:36.6

I'm sorry, I had to see my path this way.

1:44.6

My other heart's a rocket to the moon.

2:00.4

The man with the white shirt is mingling so excellently and avarlessly with my friends.

2:06.2

His smile and those dark eyes and that body and those jeans got it hurt still at him too long.

2:15.8

He's so handsome I can hardly stand it sometimes and whenever he's around,

2:21.6

everything softens in me.

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