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Love Letters

Those Summer Nights

Love Letters

The Boston Globe

Love Tips, Breakups, Dating, Relationship Tips, Love, Dating And Relationships, Love Advice, Advice, Dating Tips, Marriage Advice, Breakup Advice, Relationship Advice, The Boston Globe, Boston, Society & Culture, Love Letters, Meredith Goldstein, Dating Advice, Letters, Relationships, Boston Globe

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Summer camp love is for kids. Unless you reach out to your camp crush as an adult and fall in love with them all over again.  Today, hear a classic Love Letters podcast episode about two people who reconnected after decades. Find out where they are now – with new commentary from the original storyteller. Maybe you'll realize the love you've been searching for ... is in your sleep-away camp directory. Remember, Love Letters is also an advice column! Send your anonymous questions about single life, married life, breakup life, and friendship life to [email protected] OR by visiting Boston.com/loveletters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:05.0

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0:10.0

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0:15.0

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0:20.0

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0:22.4

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0:27.1

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0:34.6

Hey everybody, welcome to love letters. So a few months ago, I was at the theater, and a woman walked up to me at the end,

0:40.5

and she was like, Meredith, it's me from the podcast.

0:43.9

And then I admitted I did not recognize her.

0:46.0

But then she said, no, it's me, Tara, from the 2018 episode about Love at Summer Camp.

0:51.8

The weird thing is, I think about Tara a lot, especially this time of year,

0:54.8

when there are kids in camp t-shirts all over the city. Tara, in case you forgot, was the middle-aged woman who reconnected with a summer camp crush and found love with him all over again. Of course, at the theater that night, I asked her, are the two of you still together? Where are you now? Can I get an update? And she said,

1:11.9

sure, I'll fill you in. So first today, we're going to give you the classic Love Letters episode,

1:16.8

so you have all the details. Then, at the end, an update straight from the source. Enjoy.

1:26.9

From the Boston Globe, this is Love Letters.

1:31.0

I'm Meredith Goldstein.

1:34.5

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

1:38.2

We're back with a special bonus episode of Love Letters,

1:41.0

something to tide you over until season two.

1:43.4

And we're here to talk about camp.

1:48.5

I've always been fascinated by camp love and what happens when the summer ends.

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