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Letters I keep

On the reader letters in the shoebox under the stairs.

Writing

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A shoebox full of handwritten letters on a wooden floor under the stairs

There is a shoebox under the stairs full of letters from readers. Some are two lines, some are six pages. I answer every one, slowly. Some take a month. That is part of the deal I made with myself when I started the newsletter: if someone writes by hand, I write back by hand.

If someone writes by hand, I write back by hand.

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