Letters for strangers

Delivering mail
In this March 2, 2010 file photo, letter carrier Kevin Pownall delivers mail in Philadelphia.
AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File

This show will be rescheduled due to the airing of a White House press conference with President Obama.

In 2010, Hannah Brencher was living in New York and feeling lonely. She began to write letters to strangers and left them around the city and offered to write letters to anyone who might need one. The project boomed and today she has enlisted hundreds of volunteers to write to strangers around the world.

Brencher joins The Daily Circuit Monday, Jan. 14 to talk about her project, called 'The World Needs More Love Letters.'

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