Story Not Sorry 2: "Cat Person"
Alyssa Milano: Sorry Not Sorry
Peace By Peace Productions
3.1 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
In the second of our "Story Not Sorry" episodes, writer Kate Tell shares something so many of us dread and must still experience: the hole in our lives left by the death of a pet. With compassion and wit and blazing honesty, Kate touches our hearts.
Kate Tell is a writer and poet based in Hoboken, New Jersey. She's currently working on a chapbook of poems centered on grief, as well as her first novel.
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| 1:03.4 | Music Hi everyone, I'm Alyssa Milano back with Ben Jackson for another episode in our seasonal series Story Not Sorry. |
| 1:35.7 | If you're new to the series, we asked writers to submit their best writing on the theme, finding meaning in a time of strife. |
| 1:44.5 | I think lots of us are struggling to find that meaning right now |
| 1:47.9 | when so much of the world looks so meaningless and so very wrong. |
| 1:53.1 | Our guest this week is Kate Tell, |
| 1:55.3 | who shared her lovely, lovely short essay, cat Person with us. |
| 2:05.6 | Kate Tell is a writer and poet based in Hoboken, New Jersey. |
| 2:08.6 | She's currently working on a chat book of poems centered on grief as well as her first novel. |
| 2:14.6 | Cat Person by Kate Tell. |
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