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Probably your friend will put your letter away, and it’ll be read a few years from now ~ and it will improve with age. And forty years from now, your friend’s grandkids will dig it out of the attic and read it, a sweet and precious relic of the ancient Eighties that give them a sudden clear glimpse of you and her and the world we old-timers knew. You will then have created an object of art. Your simple lines about where you went, who you saw, what they said, will speak to those children and they will feel in their hearts the humanity of our times.
How to write a personal letter, by Garrison Keillor for the International Paper Company

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