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Technology keeps changing, but people seem to stay the same.
I'm old enough to recall article upon article warning that letter-writing was under threat by something I'm too old to remember--the telephone?
In the crowd I ran with in the late 50s and early 60s, we wrote letters to people we were going to see in a few hours. It didn't make things boring or uneasy.
I remember pouring my broken heart out in the late 70s to someone who was balancing her checkbook and watching television simultaneously. I'm still pissed about that.
