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Alone: A Love Story

Chapter 3: The feelings I don't feel

Alone: A Love Story

CBC

Society & Culture

4.62.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2017

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

The first four years of marriage are a happy, love-drunk time until The Husband delivers an ultimatum. Michelle reluctantly (at first) gets pregnant, and everything starts to change in her — physically and mentally.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I don't know what's real. I don't know what's not real.

0:03.1

Limited Capacity is a collection of six darkly amusing stories about the mysterious ways we interact with the internet and with each other.

0:10.9

There's something going on with him. It's like an act.

0:13.7

I don't trust it. What?

0:15.8

You're staring at me like I should say something, but I don't really know what to do here.

0:19.6

That's the whole name of the game. Don't talk about how the town isn't real. You understand?

0:24.8

Limited Capacity. A veble now on CPC Listen or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:30.6

This is a CBC Podcast.

0:34.2

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

0:39.2

Chapter three. The feelings I don't feel.

0:46.0

Married life.

0:49.2

Married life is good.

0:51.1

We spend a year in a basement apartment to save money to buy our own place.

1:00.4

It's small and crammed with all of our stuff.

1:03.6

Well, all of my stuff, he has nothing.

1:08.7

I remember the first time I was ever in his room.

1:11.8

In the house he shared with a bunch of guys. I asked, where's all your stuff?

1:17.6

And he shrugged and said he just left it all when he moved to this city.

1:21.6

I like to travel light, he said, but I didn't understand.

1:25.9

I mean, he wasn't traveling at all. He was living, wasn't he?

1:32.5

I love my stuff. I'm nostalgic for an old bowl that belonged to my friend's late mother

1:37.8

or my grandmother's kitchen utensils or the first piece of art I ever bought on my own.

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