Alone: A Love Story

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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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Chapter 22: Variations

Marking time, my territory and my biological clock.

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Chapter 23: In Dreams

PDA in NYC, running in circles and sex as ceasefire.

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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 25: Lost

Cold legs, wanderlust and living by the tides.

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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 27: Blow Away

Cloud 9, flight school, flying high. Then a sudden change of altitude.

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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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Get hygge with the final season of Alone: A Love Story

Michelle Parise invites you to get cozy with the final season of Alone: A Love Story on February 5th.

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I Should Sleep But I Don't Sleep: Bonus

A drifter in her own life: Michelle Parise shares a poignant scene that was cut from the upcoming season.

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The Thing About the Heart & Maps: Bonus

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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Fireworks & So Many Maybes: Bonus

Explosive love, beef brisket and "f--k yes!" Michelle Parise shares two scenes from the cutting room floor.

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Introducing The Horror of Dolores Roach, a new scripted fiction podcast from Gimlet

A macabre urban legend of love, betrayal, weed, gentrification, cannibalism and survival of the fittest. Listen to the first episode of Gimlet's new scripted fiction podcast The Horror of Dolores Roach, starring Daphne Rubin-Vega and Bobby Cannavale.

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Coming Soon, Season 3 of Alone: A Love Story

The final season of Alone: A Love Story by Michelle Parise arrives February 2019. Until then, here's a tease of what's to come.

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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 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 13: The Saddest Optimist

Princess Leia, part-time parenting, the invisible thread and music in the MRI...

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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 15: The New World

Dancing, being Italian, a man in the kitchen and advice from an ex-husband...

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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 17: The Lonely

Bob Dylan's curse, what lonely feels like and a visit with the matchmaker...

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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 19: So It Goes

U2, unicorns, a journey to the red hills and the curse of Drew Barrymore...

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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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Alone: A Love Story Season 2

No matter how many times love kicks her in the shins, Michelle won’t give up hope. Stick with her. Season 2 of Alone: A Love Story launches April 4.

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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.

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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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Coming September 19

With raw honesty, Michelle Parise takes you along on her winding journey from lust to heartbreak, through loneliness and despair, to eventually finding the courage to face the question mark of life, alone. The series is available Sept. 19.

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