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 a moment when a stranger completely restored your faith in people? I don’t believe there’s one person, one encounter, one miracle that can restore complete faith in people. So for now, let’s just drop the hyperbole and be realistic and rephrase the question as, describe a complete stranger, that made your day that much…
About the Archivist
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.
My Pictures Of You 