Alone: A Love Story

Michelle Parise started writing Alone: A Love Story in January 2013. She has nearly a hundred journals, where she writes everything, as soon as it happens. In these journals she documented the stories and reflections of the end of her marriage, her husband’s betrayal and her winding journey to find the courage to live alone.

Originally, Michelle thought Alone was going to be a book, but at a party one night I said, "Why don't you stop thinking of it as a book, and just think of it as your story that you can tell with your own voice?" That freed her up to think beyond the written word and then we started experimenting with ways to lift her story off the page and into a podcast for CBC. I worked as her story editor and co-producer for the first two seasons of the show which has been heard now by millions of listeners and has won gold and silver at the New York Festivals Awards.

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