Signal messenger linkedin6/11/2023 Maybe crooked handwriting or spelling mistakes hinted that one of them was anxious or hurried. Perhaps my dad’s use of smiley faces (predating by 45 years when the word “emoji” was selected as Oxford Dictionary’s Word of the Year) made my mom smile. My parents may not have thought about it, but their craftsmanship likely had an impact on the recipient. I don’t know if my mother or father ever dabbed some perfume on their letters hoping to evoke butterflies in the other’s stomach it would not have been out of place. ![]() ![]() Along with explanations of humorous or ordinary everyday episodes and proclamations of love, the letters included doodles, crossed out words, and long postscriptums. ![]() This unfathomable world was decades away from mobile phones, public internet connectivity, and social networking. Looking through my parents’ storage boxes, I found letters that my mother and father sent one another prior to my existence.
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