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wrapped in aged gray-white binding tape and sealed with a strip of bright red

wrapped in aged gray-white binding tape and sealed with a strip of bright red

A birdwatcher found a taped bundle in a cottonwood hollow before dawn containing forty-seven letters meant for a prisoner in southern Illinois - every one had the wrong address and none ever reached him. How did a single transposed digit reroute a decade of monthly letters, and who decided to keep them from vanishing entirely?

In this episode, we trace the path of those letters from the Millhaven riverbank to the rural postal route, following the people and small decisions that diverted correspondence for ten years…

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