Michelle Kane
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1,809 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 3 Sep
Michelle Kane’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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including a red-haired little girl named Helen Grove.
She was my mother.
I have spent most of my adult life pursuing the question of what drives this kind of highly aberrant behavior.
What makes someone or some group turn to actions that are widely regarded as beyond the pale?
What turns normal people into cannibals?
Do normal people exist, or are we all potential cannibals waiting for the right catalyst?
A teenage girl was asked why she and her friends had started to slice off parts of their own skin in order to eat it.
And she said, I don't know, we just felt like it.
I never met that teenage girl, but I've met plenty like her.
People caught in their own compulsions, driven to extremes of behavior, with no other explanation than they felt like it.
And this is what haunts me.
I feel like doing a great many things in my life, some of them strange or even disgusting to other people, like putting mayonnaise on french fries.
Yet I like mayo on fries.
What's to stop me from liking slices of my own skin?
How much of what I view as moral behavior is merely the product of cultural conditioning?
And how much of that might I sweep away one day because I simply feel like it?
What if I start to feel like killing people and wearing their bones as a necklace?
Will I be betraying my humanity or merely betraying the mores of my community?
And if I do all that, and it feels right, am I still me?
Or have I become a monster?
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