Sarah Koenig

I was looking through this Jet magazine.

In case you didn't know, it features African-American issues.

Smiley face, unquote.

He tells Krista that Hay had been appearing in his dreams, that dreams like this have a certain significance in Islam.

But that anyway, he's looking through this Jet magazine and he does a double take because the girl looks so much like Hay.

Even her watch looks like Hay's watch.

Quote, take a look at it and tell me what you think.

I hope I'm not going crazy, unquote.

I found this perplexing.

He seems relaxed in the letter.

This is a kid who is about to be sentenced to life in prison.

He knows that's what's about to happen.

It's the mandatory sentence for his conviction.

And that conviction, of course, was for killing Hay, Krista's good friend.

And in this pregnant, life-changing moment, he's writing a letter to Krista about whether a photo he saw while flipping through a magazine looks like Hay.

Is it too nonchalant or something?

Is it creepy?

Anand explained several things about this.

First, he wasn't especially nervous right then.

That was about to change.