Episodes
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Alone: A Love Story Introduces | Creation Myth
Get lost in someone else’s life. From a mysterious childhood spent on the run, to a courageous escape from domestic violence, each season of Personally invites you to explore the human experience in all its complexity, one story — or season — at a time. In the latest season of Personally…
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Bonus: Forza, coraggio and an update
It's okay to grieve when things are beyond our control. Michelle Parise shares words of wisdom for these uncertain times. Plus, some news! "Alone: A Love Story" is now a book.
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Chapter 28: Love after Love
Spiderman, a sexy cowboy, and making my way out of the wild, wild wood.
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Chapter 27: Blow Away
Cloud 9, flight school, flying high. Then a sudden change of altitude.
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Chapter 26: Caution
Carpenter ants, cotton candy and a passionate declaration from The Man With the White Shirt.
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Chapter 25: Lost
Cold legs, wanderlust and living by the tides.
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Chapter 24: Falling
The edge of despair, The Husband becomes a dandy, and the trouble with truth and trust.
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Chapter 23: In Dreams
PDA in NYC, running in circles and sex as ceasefire.
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Chapter 22: Variations
Marking time, my territory and my biological clock.
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Chapter 21: Courage
The first episode of the third season. A frightening encounter, a beautiful road trip and a new chapter in my life.
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Bonus: I Should Sleep But I Don't Sleep
A drifter in her own life: Michelle Parise shares a poignant scene that was cut from Season 3.
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Bonus: The Thing About the Heart & Maps
A rundown heart and a road map for life: Michelle Parise shares two more scenes from the Season 3 cutting room floor.
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Bonus: Fireworks & So Many Maybes
Explosive love, beef brisket and "f--k yes!" Michelle Parise shares two scenes from the cutting room floor.
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Chapter 20: Someone Good
Tarot cards, Lou Reed's bookend and a serpent eating its own tail...
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Chapter 19: So It Goes
U2, unicorns, a journey to the red hills and the curse of Drew Barrymore...
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Chapter 18: He Exists
Begging God for a boyfriend, a man in a white shirt, floating on Cloud 9 and Destiny's Child...
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Chapter 17: The Lonely
Bob Dylan's curse, what lonely feels like and a visit with the matchmaker...
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Chapter 16: Sidelines
A favourite lover, the divorce office, a crazy request and a (not so sure) sure thing...
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Chapter 15: The New World
Dancing, being Italian, a man in the kitchen and advice from an ex-husband...
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Chapter 14: Adrift
Springsteen, breaking the one and done policy, The Bad Ones and an orphan Christmas...
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Chapter 13: The Saddest Optimist
Princess Leia, part-time parenting, the invisible thread and music in the MRI...
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Chapter 12: Half-Life
Hookup culture, the paradox of choice, a cute/crazy guy and love off the coast of Newfoundland...
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Chapter 11: Hold It Together
Sex, sailboats and a Dark 'n Stormy. Season 2 kicks off with first times and quantum leaps...
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Chapter 10: Forza
Michelle goes to Italy to be with the people that are, and the place that is, her anchor. The sea, soil and family ground her, and a new bond is made with her father. She returns to Canada with her life a big question mark.
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Chapter 9: Freedom
Michelle looks to superconnector friends to help her re-enter the world as a single person. Late nights and spontaneity reawaken parts of her she didn't realize were dormant.
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Chapter 8: Left and leaving
Michelle and The Husband pack up their house together, dismantling 12 years in two months. They move out and into two apartments across the street from one another, committed to raising their daughter together.
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Chapter 7: Protection
In the first weeks after The Bomb, friends, family, co-workers and strangers show kindness and support, and The Husband has a revelation about kindness too.
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Chapter 6: Fallout
In the wake of The Bomb, Michelle becomes a shell of her former self, and slowly spirals down, deeper and deeper into grief and straight into the arms of the monster, Loneliness.
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Chapter 5: The bomb
By the time the baby is four, The Husband has become a stranger in his own home. There are arguments and few answers as to why. One day, Michelle finds a tell-tale umbrella and soon after, she's hit with the bomb called Affair.
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Chapter 4: Impossible to see
Michelle struggles with the isolation of maternity leave and emptiness sets in as she feels less and less like herself. Just as she's about to return to work, there's a surprising event and everything changes again.
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Chapter 3: The feelings I don't feel
The first four years of marriage are a happy, love-drunk time until The Husband delivers an ultimatum. Michelle reluctantly (at first) gets pregnant, and everything starts to change in her — physically and mentally.
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Chapter 2: Why not?
The relationship with The Scientist proves harder than expected, and yet he surprise-proposes right when a huge world tragedy occurs. Michelle says yes, starting a chain of compromises as they plan a wedding and get married.
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Chapter 1: Not if, how
On the cusp of her 39th birthday, recently divorced Michelle struggles with a complicated new romance. A drunken tarot card reading returns her to 1999, when she first met The Scientist (soon to be The Husband) and all was filled with promise.