As a teenager, Kendra James had a crush on the actor Orlando Bloom. She decorated her room with pictures of him, she wrote stories imagining a romance with him, and she joined a message board dedicated entirely to him. One day, someone on the message board had an idea to make contact with Orlando Bloom himself. Kendra James’s book is Admissions: A Memoir Of Surviving Boarding School.Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2BmMZr5We also make Criminal and Phoebe Reads a Mystery.Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop - we have a new This Is Love mug and T-shirt available to order now.Episode transcripts are posted on our website.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices