Letter of the Week
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What strategies do you use to cope with negative feelings? Humor sometimes. I was writing an essay yesterday. The first paragraph is my writing. The second must have picked up by a phone conversation in the other room mixed with one with my son in Berlin. There was a social event in our neighborhood that…
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What’s the oldest things you’re wearing today? Today I’m walking around wearing a memory of the day I drove my daughter home from the hospital. That was 32 years ago. I just got off the phone with her and she had a great day in Germany. Happy birthday, Marina
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This is a curated selection of letters that left a mark on the world, on someone’s life, or just in the margins of time.
Each is transcribed with care and respect for the medium that first carried it: the typewritten page.