Listener Heather Fife got in touch to suggest a Specialist about her parents, who've performed singing telegrams in the Bay Area for 34 years — and who had Heather and her four siblings perform them too.
Fife: My parents would pick us up from school still in their costumes. Like my dad, he'd be a sheep, and he'd come in with paint all over his face.
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Sound designed for this piece by Seth Samuel, who also wrote all the music.