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part of poetry is learning how to speak.

Chilly Billy, Chilly Billy.

I'm also a horse.

I really value my life, even though I know it's debatable whether I'm even really alive.

The right reading for this is the one I'm giving.

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From the Independent Producer Project of KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Bob Carlson, and this is Unfictional.

Unfictional is a program of true stories and personal documentaries and today on the program

What Keeps Us Apart? Somewhere between the Meet Cute and the final climactic embrace

almost every love story has the obstacle that gets in between

two lovers and their shared destiny.

On this episode, three stories about that obstacle, beginning with a story from a remote village in Western Canada about a man and a woman who are separated by the sea, and who are themselves separated from all the villagers listening into their phone calls.

From KCRW and KCRW.com, it's unfictional.

We were hippies. I mean real hippies, not kind of want to be hippies. In the 1970s my parents, they wanted to move off-grid in a small hippie colony called Desolation Sound and it took about four hours by boat to reach.

We didn't have electricity and electricity is a good thing so it was kind of a lonely time. So my sister and I played with crabs on the beach and we

we climbed trees and we we made effigies out of skunk cabbage but one of our favorite things to do was to listen to the radio phone.

It was a CD radio, but we just called it the radio phone. It was our only way to connect with the outside world.

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