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Why a letter from a made-up character can work as well as a real pen pal
Full disclosure: we make the thing this post is about, so we're biased. But our five-year-old test subjects don't care about our conflict of interest, they just want to know when Gina's next letter shows up. Turns out there's actual research on why that works, not just why it's cute.
July 15, 2026
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