When a Toronto teen suffers a panic attack at school, he escapes into the city's subway tunnels.

Underground, he discovers a hidden subculture thriving in the darkness.

I'm Chris Tawley here with Laura Mullen from CBC's acclaimed Play Me podcast, presenting Tunnel Runners, a thrilling new audio drama set beneath the city streets. Listen, wherever you get your podcasts.

This is a CBC podcast.

People often confuse the hot and slow of the south or calm and breezy.

But I've had some of the most difficult times of my life inside of these picturesque settings of porches and sweet tea and heat.

From CBC, this is Love Me, a show about the messiness of human connection.

I'm Lou.

Today's episode, Take Me Home.

My friend Sally is nearing the end of her life.

She's 91, with Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and something called Louis Body Syndrome.

In the last year, she's been asking her husband, Aaron, if she can go home.

She lives at home.

So Aaron asks her, which home she means?

They're home on State Street?

Or where they raised their kids in Nyack?

Or where they lived in Japan when she and Aaron were newlyweds and he was in the Navy.

What she always comes back with is her parents' home, the home where she grew up.

I sit alone with Sally sometimes, while Aaron needs to run an errand or take a bit of a break.

"'Pretty often, Sally asks me if she can go home, too.' "'Then on my last visit, I asked her how she was doing.

"'Cool under fire, she said.

But how is she really?

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