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The letters under the oak tree: how a pen pal wasn't real
The letters under the oak tree: how a pen pal wasn't real
A birdwatcher found forty-three opened letters stacked under a white oak tree outside Galton, North Carolina, weighted down with a creek stone. Alice Chambers had spent two years writing to Paul Carlson, a refugee in a Greek transit camp, sharing her love of literature and her quiet retirement life. But Paul had never read a single word she sent.
In this episode, we trace how a carefully constructed literary romance was engineered months before the first letter arrived, revealing nine forged postmarks hidden beneath foreign stamps and…
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