'Dear Alana,' [Teaser]

Alana’s mother finds a letter Alana wrote to herself before she died, a letter that reveals the very complicated relationship she had with her family, her church, and herself. Host Simon Kent Fung explores the life of Alana Chen, a devout young woman from Colorado whose journals bring up his own demons.

Premieres August 14th.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
This was I was telling you about this that I
found this on her keyboard. It would just like kind
of showed up and doing me read it to you.
Dear Alana, you are just a little girl, but you
really don't like yourself. What if I told you that
I love who you are, I love you how you

(00:21):
are and how you will be tomorrow. You have beautiful
hair and a beautiful face, and your family would miss
you if you were gone. Dear Alana, I don't know
what to say.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
I don't know. I don't know what drove you to
hurt yourself so badly.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
You were all alone? Why were you all alone? I
know you don't understand how you can be loved or redeemed.
I wish you could see that the people that love you,
the people that matter, they don't hold you to those standards.
They don't see you as defiled. They don't see you
as someone that needs to be fixed or different than

(01:08):
who you are. The people that love you are still
with you. Those other people that left, that walked away,
that couldn't follow you, they couldn't handle your light, They
couldn't handle the shock, the surprise. They were too weak
to see you for who you really are but your mother,

(01:29):
your real mother, and your real father, and your brother
and sisters. They have walked with you. They see you,
and now I see you, and I love you so much.
From Tenderfoot TV, I'm Simon kent Pong and this is
Dear Alana. Listen for free on Apple Podcasts.