The Pen Pal
Jakob gets an email from a police officer in Germany asking to be his penpal and says yes. What followed next was a intimate cultural dance between two earnest people.
This episode was produced for the Goethe-Institut's Big Ponder project and edited by William Gilcher and Rachel Aronoff.
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