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Alone: A Love Story

Chapter 9: Freedom

Alone: A Love Story

CBC

Society & Culture

4.62.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Michelle looks to superconnector friends to help her re-enter the world as a single person. Late nights and spontaneity reawaken parts of her she didn't realize were dormant.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I don't know what's not real.

0:02.0

Limited capacity is a collection of six darkly amusing stories

0:07.2

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.

0:14.0

I don't trust him.

0:15.0

What?

0:16.0

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

0:20.0

That's the whole name of the game.

0:21.0

Don't talk about how the town isn't real. You understand?

0:24.2

Limited capacity available now on CBC Listen or wherever you get your

0:28.9

podcasts. This is a CBC podcast.

0:34.0

You're listening to Alone, A Love Story, and I'm Michelle Perizi.

0:39.0

Chapter 9 Freedom Number nine, freedom.

0:47.0

Superconnectors. It's June.

0:50.0

I've lived alone for two months months and my place is coming together. I love it here actually,

0:56.7

set up how I like it, neat and tidy. No cupboard doors left open, no toilet seats left up. Out every window you can see the city, and out the

1:06.4

bedroom windows, the CN Tower looms huge in front of us, all lit up with different colors

1:12.4

at night, the rumble of commuter trains, a new melody.

1:17.3

It takes me 10 easy minutes to walk to work each day, 13 minutes in heels. Not having to take public transit anymore improves my life by a

1:26.0

million percent. We are downtown. In this way I feel normal again. I'm in the right place again, physically anyway.

1:37.0

Mentally, spiritually, I'm still trying to figure out what direction is up.

1:46.7

I was domesticated for so long that I have no idea what people do for fun, which bars or

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