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Hi, it's Amy Donaldson, host of the letter. We're dropping a little bonus episode this weekend as a thank you for all of the support.

We are truly grateful for everyone who is

listening and sharing this story. It means so much. Also we've had a lot of

questions from people about what went into our decision to make a second season of the letter.

And so in an effort to give listeners some insight,

our ridiculously talented, smart and generous colleague Dave Collie,

who some may recognize as the host of the Cold Podcast led this discussion with me and

producer Andrea Smarten. We share how we found out about this story and what went into

deciding whether we should make another season of this podcast and we also talk about some of the

struggles we face as we examine similar issues like loss grief,

resilience and forgiveness through completely different experiences.

Enjoy and thank you again.

I'm Dave Collie, the host of Cold. I am here with Amy Donaldson and Andrea Smarten from The Letter.

And this is super cool you guys because when I listened to the letter podcast I was under the impression this was a one and done

You and me both it was the it was the story that had a beginning and an end and it was a great podcast and like I'll tell you I've been watching

people in this Facebook true crime group discover the letter and talk about how different it is from other true crime shows.

It does stand alone, but the big news here is there's a second season of the letter.

Yes, but we didn't plan on that. As you know, Andrea moved on to

another project which she published her Afghan refugee project. I moved on to a

soccer project and I have not yet published that.

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