Sam Feirstein: Alaska Bingo

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Lea Thau

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Sam Feirstein takes a broken heart to Alaska and finds surprising kindness in enemy territory....

Sam's virgin voyage in a Kayak

Sam in Alaska

A happy man in the wilderness

Sam's new best friends

Strangers producer and host, Lea Thau, also took a broken heart — and her 9-month-old baby — to a strange land, and found extraordinary kindness among strangers, when India proved to be a bit more than she'd bargained for.

Producer Lea Thau and her son, Oliver, in India

Oliver with the son of Thau's host family

Oliver and one of the many, many dogs in Dharamsala

Thau's view of the mountains

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