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The voice she trusted was never real

The voice she trusted was never real

A silver MacBook Air sits abandoned on a snowy porch railing on December 22, 2023, and inside the pale blue house on Pelham Street, Ruth Hunt cannot account for the past two hours. Fourteen months of daily voice messages from Marcus Tan-a warm, precisely accented voice that matched her academic expertise in Singaporean English-collapse into a single question: if the voice never belonged to a real person, who had she been talking to all along?

In this episode, we follow Ruth's relationship with Marcus from their first LinguaLink message in December 2022…

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