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Love Me

Telling You Stories

Love Me

CBC

Society & Culture

4.5797 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Have you heard the tale of the little girl who lost her leg while horsing around at the fair? A safety-obsessed father tells his daughter bedtime stories about freak accidents from around the world. Plus, one grandson remembers the tall tales his grandfather used to tell him, while another grandson searches for the truth about a grandmother he never new.

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0:00.0

My name is Graham Isidore.

0:03.0

I have a progressive eye disease called Caritoconis.

0:06.0

And maying I'm losing my vision has been hard, but explaining it to other people has been harder.

0:11.0

Lately, I've been trying to talk about it.

0:14.0

Short-sighted is an attempt to explain what vision loss feels like by exploring how it sounds.

0:19.0

By sharing my story, we get into all the things

0:22.0

you don't see about hidden disabilities. Short-sighted from CBC's personally available now.

0:31.2

This is a CBC podcast. Hey, it's Lou. If you like, love me, I think you should check out heavyweight with Jonathan Goldstein.

0:40.6

In each episode, Jonathan revisits a moment from a stranger's life when it all went wrong.

0:46.2

Like a therapist with a time machine.

0:48.8

In this episode from their new season, an 11-year-old boy helps his mom confront the girl who bullied her when she was his age.

0:56.8

I just wanted you to kind of like get your avenge.

1:00.9

My revenge?

1:03.0

Avenge yourself. Sorry, I'm using the wrong word.

1:06.2

That's heavyweight from Gimlin.

1:08.3

Find it wherever you get your podcasts.

1:28.5

Okay. All right, you there? All right. So, when I was a kid, my granddad would tell me all these stories.

1:31.8

Have I told you about these stories before?

1:38.4

Like, when I didn't eat my vegetables, he told me that if I got too skinny,

1:46.2

the front of my stomach and the back of my back would rub together and cause friction and I would catch fire.

1:50.8

At the time, I believed him, yeah.

2:01.1

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

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