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what is lost in this now when perfumed letters in licked envelopes & sealed with kisses are nowhere to be found? i can still taste vagrant memories of those lipstick lies bound in glue & floral-scented hue
dead letter office
words | spirit
sceadugenga 
Those last four lines! Nice! 💌 I started a letter writing campaign a few months ago. With the cost of stamps, it is turning into an expensive hobby! 😆
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I imagine! I have to admit I really miss those marathon writing sessions back in the eighties, where I had multiple pen pals who lived all over the world. I’m not so certain they enjoyed my ten-page letters, but… 🤣
Thanks for the kind praise. 🙏
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Might be cheaper to deliver the letters myself. 😆 OK, not really, but would be fun! Only ten pages? 😂 You are welcome!
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I was kindly asked to not be quite so prolific. 😜
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😆 I understand! ✍🏻✍🏻✍🏻😩
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Superbly evoked ⚘💜
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Yes! I miss those days of handwritten letters. I sent a lot during the pandemic, but haven’t since. I need to do that again.
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I’ve mostly found people baffled by the idea in the past few years, interestingly enough — but I was always a letter writer in my youth (especially late-teens and early-twenties). It seems now that people prefer fragments of conversation in short-form (texts and messaging). I’m a long-form person myself.
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Something different flows through when you write with pen on paper. It activates a different part of our brains and allows unguarded emotions to flow through a bit more (in my experience). Plus, the form of the handwriting tells so much about a person and their state of mind.
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:’)
I’m afraid of what might be revealed about my state of mind. Here come the white coats…
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