Scott Turner Schofield
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These payphones let you say goodbye to someone before it's too late.
An art project called the Goodbye Line prompts passersby to make a collect call and say goodbye to a loved one, a pet, or maybe a part of themselves.
People are dialing.
Written by Todd Martins for the Los Angeles Times.
Narrated by Scott Turner Schofield for Apple News Plus subscribers.
Alexis Wood received a notification on her phone.
It was an anonymous call from a payphone.
She listened and was momentarily paralyzed.
And then she couldn't stop crying.
The call wasn't completely unexpected.
Days earlier, Wood and her partner, Adam Trunnell, had gone prowling for working Los Angeles payphones, placing stickers on them that invited passersby to make a free call to a recorded line to say goodbye.
What surprised her was the message.
The voice on the other end of the line sounded like a young man who confessed that he thought the toll-free 888 number would allow him to call his mother.
Once he realized it wouldn't, he pivoted and followed the recorded prompt to say goodbye.
To remember, to pay respects, to turn the page.
To a loved one or part of yourself.
Wood listened to it again, on repeat.
"'I started to cry,' Wood says, sitting with Trunnell in a downtown coffee shop.
"'I didn't realize this was going to have that effect on me, that this was a very real, authentic moment for someone.'"
Alternately rebellious and nostalgic, the Goodbye Line is a relatively new art project found on payphones throughout the L.A.
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