Ghost: Alex

The Heart

Kaitlin Prest

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2016

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Powerful memories are like paused tapes in our minds – a hum barely heard beneath the noise of our everyday – ready to be played at any moment. This audio fiction explores the process of falling in love with someone, fading away and eventually discovering all that you have left of them is a memory. Carter, our narrator, is on a present-day first date with Frankie but is distracted by memories of past lover, Alex, which play like a tape in his head. But with each replaying, the tapes seem to have warped, or maybe Carter has.

Produced by Dane Stewart, Katie Hill, Matthew Kariatsumari and Michelle Macklem. Special thanks to Renée Hodgins, Emily Skahan and Mira Burt-Wintonick.

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0:00.0	Dating is difficult for everyone, but it can be especially difficult when you're my mom.
0:04.7	I can't go 30 years looking for somebody.
0:08.2	She's 73 and is recently divorced after 42 years of marriage, but my mom loves love.
0:15.5	He kissed me. I felt like I was on cloud 999.
0:20.4	And she's determined to find the love of her life before her life is over,
0:24.2	so she dives into the online dating world. But online dating is not easy.
0:29.5	Men lie to her.
0:31.2	All of a sudden, he tells me, oh my gosh, I was robbed.
0:36.3	Men, don't call her back.
0:38.0	Why would a man who kissed you not call you right back?
0:41.6	Men break her heart.
0:43.6	And then he crawled me up and said, I don't want to see you anymore.
0:47.3	Luckily, she has me, her daughter.
0:49.8	Have you ever had a vibrator?
0:52.0	No.
0:52.8	Oh my god, mom, you're gonna, okay, I'm ordering you one.
0:56.3	Done.
0:58.0	And a few experts to guide her.
1:00.4	Make a decision that you're changing your belief, and your new belief is, love is possible for me.
1:07.6	It's about discovery and experimenting.
1:11.2	If you let the relationship develop slowly over time, then you can really see
1:16.1	who someone is and you can see how you feel about them.
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