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Mar 2022

17m 46s

Corona Kiddos

The Merry Beggars

About this episode

Eli and Hazel, two young best friends, are navigating the first COVID-19 lockdown and all its uncertainty together through letter-writing.

While Eli is trying to remain relentlessly lighthearted, his best friend Hazel struggles to cope with some of the more brutal realities of the pandemic.

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