Alone: A Love Story

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**Alone: A Love Story**

Alone: A Love Story is an award-winning memoir by Michelle Parise. With candour and humour, Michelle delves into the deepest, darkest aspects of her divorce and her new life as a part-time parent, part-time partier.

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Chapter 13: The Saddest Optimist Apr 05, 2018

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

Chapter 12: Half-Life Apr 04, 2018

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Hookup culture, the paradox of choice, a cute/crazy guy and love off the coast of Newfoundland...

Chapter 11: Hold It Together Apr 03, 2018

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Sex, sailboats and a Dark 'n Stormy. Season 2 kicks off with first times and quantum leaps...

Chapter 10: Forza Sep 29, 2017

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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.

Chapter 9: Freedom Sep 28, 2017

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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.

Chapter 8: Left and leaving Sep 27, 2017

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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.

Chapter 7: Protection Sep 26, 2017

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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.

Chapter 6: Fallout Sep 23, 2017

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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.

Chapter 5: The bomb Sep 22, 2017

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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.

Chapter 4: Impossible to see Sep 21, 2017

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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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