Susan Burton rereads her parents' divorce papers—the fine print that changed her life forever. (7 minutes)
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Act Four: Single Bells
Scaachi Koul is commemorating a Christmas first of her own – and ON her own – this year.
Act Two: One Life To Live
A woman, who got in a car accident and was in a coma for 52 days, woke up having forgotten the last two years of her life — during which she'd divorced her husband. Producer Miki Meek spent a week with this family, in the midst of their difficult situation. (14 minutes)
Act Two: Sunrise, Sun-Get
Mark Oppenheimer reports on agunah in the Orthodox Jewish community.
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Act One
Susan Burton introduces some of the many women who went to a Yale fertility clinic for IVF treatment, and charts their experience from hopeful beginning to excruciatingly painful egg retrieval.
Act Two
Often bypassing logic, the women go to great lengths to construct elaborate stories to make sense of their inexplicable pain.
Act 1: Naked Lunch
Susan Burton is a couple years into recovery from the eating disorder she’s had for decades.