From the Boston Globe, this is Love Letters. I'm Meredith Goldstein.

Hey everyone, I hope you're all having a lovely summer. We're back with a

special bonus episode of Love Letters, something to tide you over until season two.

And we're here to talk about camp. I've always been fascinated by camp love and what

happens when the summer ends. Maybe that's because I've never known camp love

myself. See I didn never known camp love myself.

See, I didn't go to sleep-boy camp. I've never known that sense of freedom, that bonding,

and yeah, that love. In my imagination, my camp boyfriend would have taken me to the kissing rock or some field of wildflowers where campers make out. In this fantasy by the way I have no allergies and

could frolic in a field of wildflowers without getting eczema.

To explore the idea of Camp Love and the end of summer loss that comes with it, I figured I'd

go to the experts.

I started with David Wayne. He's the architect of the classic summer camp movie

Wet Hot American Summer and the recent Netflix series of the same name. If you haven't

seen it, wet-hot is a hilarious send-up of summer camp romance.

David says he drew heavily on his experiences at a Jewish camp in Maine as a kid.

Like the time he borrowed a camp van as a teenager and tried to sneak back and visit this girl.

I had a crush on a girl and I kissed her one night and then had to leave the next day to drive a bunch of kids to a overnight in Baxter State Park and I was so

anxious to see this girl again that I left them there with the other counselor

and drove back late at night. The hundreds of reasons why that was stupid

did not occur to me.

I was driving through the forest

and I was blasting the music so that I could stay awake.

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