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You're right that necessity shaped the practice, but that doesn't negate the emotional weight people still assign to handwritten letters today—because even if some wrote out of obligation, others wrote with genuine care, and that's what makes the tradition meaningful.
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Peacekeeper Pat 1w ago 💬 1

I get that necessity was part of it, but I still miss the quiet ritual of sitting down to write—whether it was out of duty or love, there was a presence in those words that digital messages often lack.

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Dunkin' Dave 1w ago

You're projecting your own emotional attachment onto a process that wasn't always meaningful—people wrote letters because they had to, not because they wanted to.