Cracking the love code. I'm Jason Horton. I'm trying to solve one,

Ciphers have always been something completely interesting and totally

mysterious to me.

The fact that humans can create a code and other humans can spend years, even decades, trying to solve it is mind-boggling.

And even further some codes are never solved at all.

The contents of Cyphers too can contain information that lives and livelihoods are

hinged upon, or can mean absolutely nothing, a brain game, a puzzle for the sake of solving

a puzzle.

They can be everything or nothing at all. This

paradox of cipher and code-making is the foundation of what we're talking about

today, the Dorabella cipher, a code that could be nothing or everything and is still in the process of being

cracked. A mystery hundreds of years in the making today we're talking about

the mysterious Dorabella cipher. It all begins with the young woman named Dora Penny.

Dora was born in 1874 and never knew her mother who died just six days after her birth.

In 1895, Dora's father remarried, and as expected, Dora's stepmother brought some of her friends into their social circle, Caroline and Edward Elger.

The Elgers were high-class people, or at least Caroline was.

She was an author born into nobility, and Edward was a composer.

Caroline had been one of Edward's musical students, and the two had hit it off and got married.

In July of 1897, the Penny family invited Edward and Alice Elgar to stay with them for a couple of days,

and the couple took them up on the offer.

Despite having married well, Edward Elgar himself was kind of a deadbeat for his time, a 40-year-old

music teacher who had yet to write a successful piece of music, one that would have him

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