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If I Could Say One More Thing

Andrea Appelwick | If I Could Say One More Thing

A podcast about the words left unsaid... the unfinished conversations that linger in memory. Through real stories from real people, each episode explores love, loss, grief, and the moments that still echo. Part storytelling, part reflection, If I Could Say One More Thing is a safe space for memory, closure, and connection. 💫 Share your story, support the show, or explore more: https://linktr.ee/IfICouldSayOneMoreThing

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51:05

S02E20 | The Words He Left in the Margins

If I Could Say One More Thing ·

2026/09/28

She bought the book because it was four euros and raining.Someone had written in it. At first, the notes in the margins of an old copy of To the Lighthouse were funny, opinionated, occasionally impatient with Virginia Woolf. Then one name began appearing. Anna. No surname. No explanation. Only traces: arguments, jokes, too many pears, and a piece of Satie that had to be played from the beginning. Slowly. As Laura follows the handwriting from blue ink to black ink to pencil, she begins

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44:58

S02E19 | The Thing You Trusted Me With

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2026/09/14

She knew exactly where to aim.For more than a decade, Leah and her best friend Monica said almost everything to each other through voice messages... from grocery aisles, carpool lines, kitchens, and the edges of ordinary life. Then Monica entrusted Leah with something fragile: a fear about her marriage she hadn't told anyone else. Months later, during an argument, Leah used it against her. One sentence. Said in anger. Delivered with perfect accuracy. The friendship ended. Thirteen years

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64:00

S02E18 | The Story We Got Wrong

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2026/08/31

A one-year anniversary special.Twenty-three years ago, Emma left York believing she understood exactly what had happened between her and a man named Daniel. She'd made peace with it. Built a whole life in Italy on top of it. Then her father falls down the stairs, she flies home for what should be a few ordinary days... and steps off a hospital lift into the one face she never expected to see again. This is a story about the versions of events we build when no one hands us the real one. About

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60:08

S02E17 | The Word I Kept Hearing

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2026/08/17

There's a word that follows some of us into every room... at baby showers, at holidays, at the exact moment someone asks the wrong question in the wrong tone. For Ashley, that word was still. Still single. Still renting. Still not where she thought she'd be.This week's story follows one ordinary, overdressed Saturday: a baby shower, a box from the attic, a folder covered in silver stars and the small, unglamorous act of writing a letter to the person she used to be. Not to fix anything. Just to

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54:39

S02E16 | The Life She Folded Away

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2026/08/03

What do you do when you find the life your mother never got to live, folded into a shoebox at the back of a closet?In this episode, Nina is helping her seventy-two-year-old mother, Ruth, downsize after a fall... sorting a lifetime into three index cards laid out on the living room floor: KEEP, DONATE, TRASH. Then she finds the box her mother never labeled. Inside is a passport, an acceptance letter to an art school in Florence, and a photograph of Ruth at twenty-one, laughing beside a man

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53:50

S02E15 | The Train We Didn’t Catch

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2026/07/20

Most of us assume the important moments in life arrive with some kind of warning.A wedding. A goodbye. A phone call. But sometimes they begin with a minor inconvenience. In this episode, Francesca and Davide are returning from a corporate retreat in Rome. They've worked together for years, sharing meetings, conference coffees, train rides, and the kind of easy familiarity that comes from seeing someone often without ever truly knowing them. Then they miss their train. What begins as an

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36:05

S02E14 | The Call He Almost Didn’t Answer

If I Could Say One More Thing ·

2026/07/06

There are calls we ignore because we’re busy. And then there are calls we ignore because we’re not. In this episode, Luke is standing in front of his open fridge on a warm July evening in Trieste when his phone rings. The number isn’t saved. He considers letting it go. But then he answers. On the other end is Matthew, his younger brother, the person he hasn’t really spoken to in years. What begins as an awkward, ordinary phone call slowly becomes something more revealing: a conversation about

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30:30

S02E13 | The Date That Meant Two Things

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2026/06/22

The date was chosen for us. That’s what made it impossible to ignore. In this episode, a woman signs the final papers of her divorce on the same day she once said yes... her wedding anniversary. Thirty years, distilled into a signature. Not an ending marked by heartbreak, but by something quieter… a shift in gravity. The Date That Meant Two Things is a reflective audio story about the kinds of relationships that don’t break, but slowly transform into something unrecognizable, and yet, somehow still

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27:57

S02E12 | The Place I Still Have

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2026/06/08

The place was still there. I just didn’t know if I was.In this episode, a mother and daughter sit side by side after a family wedding, sharing a quiet car ride to the airport. Nothing dramatic has happened between them, just the slow accumulation of distance that can form over years of trying to love each other in ways that don’t quite land. The Place I Still Have is a reflective audio story about presence, perception, and the subtle ways relationships shift over time. It explores what happens

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32:05

S02E11 | The Question I Didn’t Ask

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2026/05/25

The question was ready. I wasn’t.In this episode, a woman stands at the end of an ordinary evening: a doorway, a pause, a familiar urge to seek clarity. What follows isn’t a confrontation or a turning point in the traditional sense, but a quiet decision, one that marks a shift in how she listens to herself, and how she understands when a question no longer belongs to her. The Question I Didn’t Ask is a reflective audio story about timing, restraint, and emotional self-trust. It explores the

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S02E10 | The Reunion I Declined

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2026/05/11

She wasn’t afraid to go. She just didn’t want to.In “The Reunion I Declined,” a woman in her late twenties receives an invitation to her ten-year high school reunion. What unfolds isn’t a dramatic refusal or a moment of confrontation, but a quiet reckoning with timing, self-trust, and the difference between showing up and staying intact. This is a reflective audio story about discernment, about listening to your body instead of performing a version of yourself for others. It explores

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38:53

S02E09 — The Seat I Didn’t Take

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2026/04/27

Some shifts don’t announce themselves. They simply ask you to stay.In The Seat I Didn’t Take, Clara finds herself in an ordinary moment on a train: an empty seat, a pause, a familiar impulse to step aside. What follows isn’t a dramatic turning point, but a subtle interruption of a lifelong pattern, the habit of leaving early, of making space before being asked. This episode is a reflective audio story about presence, self-erasure, and the small decisions that reveal how we’ve learned to move

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24:06

S02E08 | The Person Who Knew Me Before

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2026/04/13

What happens when someone from your childhood recognizes you before you recognize yourself?In The Person Who Knew Me Before, Jennifer unexpectedly runs into her former babysitter decades later in Thousand Oaks, California. What begins as a brief, ordinary encounter becomes something quieter and more profound: a moment of being seen without explanation, by someone who knew her before adulthood taught her how to be manageable. This episode is a gentle, hand-holding story about memory, identity,

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29:04

S02E07 | The Spring I Returned to Myself

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2026/03/30

Twenty-six years after a promise made lightly in a botanical garden, a woman imagines returning, not to change the past, but to understand it.In this episode, Liora revisits a single season from her twenties and the man she never quite left behind. What unfolds is not a love story, but a meditation on timing, tenderness, and the quiet ways certain people shape us simply by how they move through the world. Set between an English kitchen and an Italian garden in early spring, this story explores

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S02E06 | The Dinner I Never Had

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2026/03/16

At a white-tablecloth restaurant, the narrator orders for two and speaks to the empty chair across the table: his brother, equal parts mischief and heart. Between Brussels sprouts, burgers, and the check placed equidistant between the living and the loved, they unpack sibling rivalries, timing, and the debts we can’t settle once time closes the kitchen.A tender, funny elegy about family choreography, tiny deaths, and deciding what to keep when goodbye refuses to give you rules. If this episode

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S02E05 | The Walk We Never Took

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2026/03/02

On a SoHo corner, Zach recognizes Hannah, the high-school first who still sounds like a skipped stone. They trade a hug, life updates, and restraint. This is not a cheating fantasy, but a careful honoring of who they were and who they chose.The real walk happens later, in his head: past the Hudson, across years, toward the words he never said. Some loves are rivers you live beside; you don’t need to jump in to be changed by the sound. If this episode found you, follow the show and share it with

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S02E04 | The One I Almost Became

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2026/02/16

At a Santa Barbara wedding, Aiden and Nora, once "something friend-adjacent", trade jokes, truth, and the kind of honesty that didn’t exist in their twenties. Between fairy lights and ocean air, they admit what went wrong: mistaking comfort for connection, potential for promise. No grand gestures, no stolen endings... just two people who can finally stand next to each other and not flinch. A story about rehearsal selves, disciplined love, and the gentle art of closing a door without slamming

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S02E03 | The Translation That Changed Everything

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2026/02/02

Years after a whirlwind Trieste romance ends in a windblown note, “I have to go earlier… forgive me for all”, a different translation reframes everything. Was it abandonment, or a plea to be gentle with the story? Through language nerdiness, sonic memories, and the mercy of nuance, this episode explores how words carry tone, how "go ahead" isn’t the same as "leave early," and why reframing a goodbye can be the difference between bitterness and blessing. For anyone who has loved across borders... or

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S02E02 | The Painting I Never Bought (And Finally Did)

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2026/01/20

In Trieste’s Sunday market, a small yellow field with a crooked horizon becomes a quiet ghost... a painting left behind for €30 that turns into years of second-guessing. When it reappears eleven years later (more cracked, more expensive, still itself), Elliot finally buys it and, with it, permission to notice again: better cappuccino, braver apologies, small second chances hiding in plain sight. This story isn’t about taste; it’s about timing... how the objects we choose can reset our attention and

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29:53

S02E01 | The Wrong Suitcase

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2026/01/06

After a baggage mix-up, Maya brings home a stranger’s suitcase and opens a life by accident: a chef’s apron, a playlist for endurance, and a notebook of tender recipes written between grief notes and reminders to buy flowers on Mondays. In two borrowed days, she cooks his pasta, listens to his songs, and discovers the shape of a man who bakes at 3 a.m. for his daughters. When the airline finally calls, she tucks a small gift into the notebook... a piece of music and a wish for gentler nights. This

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