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(Unsent) Love Letters

With Esther Perel and Love Letters

Have you written a letter to someone you love(d) and not sent it? Have you composed a confessional email to an unrequited crush or drafted a dispatch to someone who let you down? Psychotherapist and “Where Should We Begin?” podcast host Esther Perel and Love Letters columnist and podcast host Meredith Goldstein explore the messages we keep to ourselves in Letters Unsent. Click this box to learn more about the project.
(unsent) Love Letters: You’ll Always Be My Baby
Producer & Editor: Anush Elbakyan, Producer & Script: Courtney Hamilton Knight, Animation: Daniel García, Illustration & Direction: Natalia Ramos

You’ll always be my baby

“We were love and light, posing as people. Our youth and our passion imprinted on that time and space and it still exists, somewhere in the world. I know it does because I felt it when you spoke through that phone… eight years later.”
(unsent) Love Letters: I Want to Know What Your Baby Looks Like
Producer & Editor: Anush Elbakyan, Producer & Script: Courtney Hamilton Knight, Animation: Daniel García, Illustration & Direction: Natalia Ramos

I want to know what your baby looks like

Eight years after their breakup, a woman dreams of the love she lost and imagines the life he has now without her.
(unsent) Love Letters: Your Silence Tells Me All I Need to Know
Producer & Editor: Anush Elbakyan, Producer & Script: Courtney Hamilton Knight, Animation: Daniel García, Illustration & Direction: Natalia Ramos

Your silence tells me all I need to know

In the third installment of the (Unsent) Love Letters series, a young woman waits for her former partner to choose.
My Warped Fantasy. A poem.
Producer & Editor: Anush Elbakyan, Producer & Script: Courtney Hamilton Knight, Animation: Daniel García, Illustration & Direction: Natalia Ramos

My warped fantasy

The first letter is a poem. Short thoughts about wishes and dreams. It’s a seven-stanza missive from a person to their engaged colleague.
(unsent) Love Letters: Your Wheels and Your Eyes
Producer & Editor: Anush Elbakyan, Producer & Script: Courtney Hamilton Knight, Animation: Daniel García, Illustration & Direction: Natalia Ramos

I am your wheels and your eyes

In an unsent letter to her partner, a woman “pushing 80” describes the 30-year romance she never thought would work.
Unsent Love Letters
Producer & Editor: Anush Elbakyan, Producer & Script: Courtney Hamilton Knight, Animation: Daniel García, Illustration & Direction: Natalia Ramos

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Love letters Season 3

Love Letters Season Three: How do you know?

How do you know when it’s true love? When to sleep together? When to leave someone? In Season 3 of Love Letters, Meredith Goldstein takes on a universal question: How do you know?
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