Are you a letter writer?

Of course if you were born after 1985, you may have no idea what a letter is - since everyone uses email, wireless messaging, chatrooms, and discussion boards to communicate now. In the olden days, ie. up to and including 1997, we wrote letters. Or at least some of us wrote letters. I'm a letter writer and a journal keeper - always have been. When I was a child I wrote long involved letters to people I'd never seen in Turkey and France. Later as an adult, I wrote friends and family letters - sometimes ten pages long. The content varied - I remember one letter to my parents that ranged from describing the way the light bounced off the car window on a bitter morning in February to Paul Theroux's writing style in Patagonia Express, to how a watercolor brush should be pressed against a sheet of paper to bring an image to life. I loved painting words on paper - with different colored pens. My letters would often shift in color from red, to blue, to green, to black with doodles in the margins becoming odd paintings with letters in of themselves.

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