The Ones That Got Away

A cool piece about a love that just won't work. I empathized and I think most people would find some morsel of truth in this piece. I really appreciate the speaker's distance and perspective from the certainly painful subject matter. The feeling of resolution makes this piece enjoyable to listen to rather than nerve-racking and painful, as it must have been to experience. The resulting radio piece is clear and concise description of only the important details, well-narrated by Michael Nutt. The soundtrack gave the piece a lightness that helped move the piece along, not lingering on any one memory of fouled love, but jumping along to the next one as quickly and nimbly as one advances a CD. Do not be put off by the length of this piece. It's about 5:25, with a well-suited extro of Dean Martin's "Memories are Made of This." This would work well as an insert on ME or ATC, but I believe it would be best suited for a Valentine's Day themed program about love and its incarnations. Unlike the previous reviewer of this piece, I did not miss the absence of all the gory details. I rather enjoyed the sparsity of detail, which allowed for the listener with similar experiences to actively connect to the story rather than be a passive listener with experiences made dissimilar to those recounted in the piece because of incongruities in exact details.