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more about #letters more comments → clevernamehere: If there are any Jez-bakers out there who want to give a little troop support, you might want to consider Baking Gals [www.bakinggals.com] I haven't... more » CurtCole: There's an Arthur Miller's "All my Sons" comment in there somewhere, I just can't find it. more » Penny: Did any of you write to soldiers in the first Iraq war? My class were all required to write a letter, I believe in the 6th grade, and I was the only ... more » queen_caribbean: Yay for Ms. Spanier for writing to soldiers. It's probably the brightest spot in their day and gives them something to smile about. But am I the only ... more » LaComtesse: How cute would it be if those little girls grew up, fell in love, and lived happily ever after? Can we PLEASE make this a love story? Also, I am secre... more » BabyJane: She sent an S O S to the world. more » hortense: Oh, I love this! And that another little girl found the message makes it even better. Awesome. more » I_can_still_pitch: Whenever I see the pristine beaches and endless emerald ocean in Bermuda, the first thing I think of is "I feel like throwing some trash into that." more » curiousgeorgiana: She's a witch! She's a witch! more » JerkoftheMonth is changing her name!: My grandparents actually DO fit into the 50s stereotypes. Not that they are 2-dimensional, which a lot of people on here refute, but that they behaved... more » rednrowdy: the problem is that the baby boomers remember the 50's as being stricter because they were kids then, and since everything in society seems to be aime... more » TheFormerJuneBronson: I had something like this reaction when I finally actually sat down and saw all 234 episodes of Leave It To Beaver (it was shortly before I named myse... more » Eric Northman is mine: God, i love love letters (writing and receiving). And not just the mushy intimate ones also funny and sexy kind. Shame it's a dying mode of communicat... more » laureltreedaphne: This is actually one of my major problems with Mad Men, and the reason I haven't been able to get in to it. I feel like they DO portray men as one dim... more » Penny: One only needs to read Regan's letters to know that men could have feelings in the 50's. Say what you will about the man, he was a good letter writer... more » -
#goldengirls
Correspondence Course
Since 1944, through 6 wars, Chicago's Barbara Spanier has been writing to any soldier who needs a friend. "I feel like they're my sons...I only have four girls and I feel like they were my sons." [UPI] -
#messageinabottle
"It Followed Me Home"
8-year-old Meagan Bilodeau was on vacation with her family near Bermuda where she sealed a message in a bottle addressed to her future pen-pal. A few days later, the bottle washed ashore in Massachusetts, 15 miles from Meagan's home. [CNN] -
#retromodern
Wait: Even In The 50s, Men Had Feelings?
In the article "Touchy-Feely 'Mad Men'? My Mom's Love Letters Show a Softer '50s Male," this writer explored a cache of his mother's old love letters and learned that men of the 50s were not, in fact-2D. More » -
#manofletters
The Wonderful Story Of Roald Dahl...
A cache of hundreds of Roald Dahl's letters have come to light - but from where? Says the author's biographer, "The guy who owns the letters is old and very keen to stay out of the limelight." Mystery! [Telegraph] -
#houseofmirth
Teenage Edith Wharton Would Have Made Amazing "Gossip Girl"
Remember when Constance Billard puts on The Age of Innocence for its senior play? Is it mere coincidence that Edith Wharton's teenage correspondence should just have come to light after decades of secrecy? Okay, probably. More » -
#youcantmakeitup
Letters To The Editor: "Young Tramps At Riverbend"
Moral outrage in Chattanooga! A tipster sent us an exchange from her local paper that contains more disturbing crazy than an "I Saw Your Nanny" public diapering thread! Slut-shaming! Rage! Sin! "Rolls of fat galore!" More » -
#crapemails
Love Letters Are Dead; Breakup Letters Are Blooming
Why is the internet so much better for breakups? More » -
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#deaths
R.I.P. John Updike
John Updike, the prolific, Pulitzer-winning writer, has died at 76. The cause was lung cancer. More » -
#kurtvonnegut
Full Disclosure
Two years after Kurt Vonnegut's death, academic Loree Rackstraw is revealing the details of their four decade relationship in an "intimate biography." Says Rackstraw, "It was a friendship unlike any I've had with anyone." [Telegraph]
