Endless Dread: Imaginary Friend

Endless Thread

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🗓️ 29 October 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

When Kellie's 3 year-old daughter told her about her new imaginary friend, Kellum, she didn't think too much of it. But gradually, Kellum started to feel less and less... imaginary. Kellie and her daughter, Madison, tell us everything.

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0:00.0	Produced by the island at WBUR Boston.
0:07.0	Do you remember the first time you saw Kellum?
0:11.0	I don't remember seeing him for the first time.
0:14.0	All I can remember is just him being there.
0:19.0	This is Madison.
0:21.0	She's from Macon, Georgia.
0:23.0	She's 15 years old now.
0:25.0	But when she was little, she had imaginary friends.
0:28.0	I had Dana and Steve,
0:30.0	Braga and Kinga and boyfriend and girlfriend.
0:35.0	Always in pairs.
0:37.0	Always in pairs.
0:38.0	One day, along came a new imaginary friend
0:42.0	who was not part of a pair.
0:44.0	Kellum first started visiting Madison
0:47.0	when she was three years old.
0:49.0	I thought, well, that's new.
0:51.0	This one's, you know, there's only one of this one.
0:53.0	He's kind of flying solo.
0:55.0	This is Madison's mom, Kelly.
0:57.0	My red handle is Who Farded?
0:59.0	And it's spelled HOF underscore H-A-R-D-E-D.
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