My Dead Mother’s Italian Lover
Love Me
CBC
4.5 • 797 Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Not long after Peter’s mother Mara dies, a stranger messages him on Facebook. His name is Francesco and he says that before she met Peter’s dad, Mara was the love of his life.
Francesco starts sending Peter poetry and links to love songs, describing his romance with Peter’s mom in more and more detail. And the woman in his stories is nothing like the mother Peter knew.
So Peter reaches out to Francesco for a phone call. A reflection on life’s sliding doors and how we can never truly know all the versions of the people we love.
Featuring Peter Lang-Stanton. Original Music by David Drury.
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| 0:22.5 | Dwayne Johnson is calling the most challenging of his career. |
| 0:25.8 | You can hear that now on cue with me, Tom Power, wherever you get your podcasts, including YouTube. |
| 0:31.9 | This is a CBC podcast. |
| 0:35.2 | From CBC, This is Love Me, a show about the messiness of human connection. |
| 0:41.4 | I'm Lou. |
| 0:42.9 | Today's episode, my dead mother's Italian lover. |
| 0:50.0 | My mother had a catchphrase. |
| 0:52.6 | Life takes over. |
| 0:57.0 | She said it all the time. Life takes over. If she was out of shape or she'd lost touch with people, what are you going to do? |
| 1:01.0 | Life takes over. |
| 1:03.0 | In high school, I told my mom I wanted to be a musician, and she said, |
| 1:08.0 | I always wanted to be a painter. But life takes over. The more she said, I always wanted to be a painter, but life takes over. |
| 1:13.6 | The more she said it, the more it confused me. How could life take over? |
| 1:19.6 | Wasn't life, just all of it? Everything that happened? |
| 1:24.6 | For her, life had a very specific meaning. |
| 1:28.8 | It was the thing keeping her from doing what she really wanted to do. |
| 1:35.9 | When she said life, I couldn't help hearing us, me and my brothers. |
| 1:42.4 | Here it goes. |
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