A few months ago, I was at a coffee shop for a small event I put together. A reading party where only 2 people showed up. Still, we had a fantastic time reading and chatting around lattes. On the wall mixed in with local advertisements, statements, and event calendars was an advert for a dating service where you send each other letters instead of swiping. Naturally I signed up but it's now taken me two weeks to write a letter back. Part of it was extreme work and family issues that arose but the other was, what do I write?? As a child I was able to craft letters to my grandmother and family from camp and student fieldtrips with a mastery of words similar to that of an esteemed 19th century noblewoman who would write to her wayward brother that he must return home for the family estate was in jeopardy. Okay yes that's a complete exaggeration but the feeling of writing a letter for the first time in over a decade was akin to that feeling. Unlike with text or even emails, you have to…
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