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I'd Like To Send You A Postcard

I'd Like To Send You A Postcard

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Who hasn’t been watching the Netflix adaptation of One Day? I’m only a few episodes in but the TV series instantly sent me spinning back decades because of one tiny detail in particular: Emma and Dexter writing letters and postcards to one another.

I know many of you had a similar feeling when

Dr Lily Dunn
and I started writing letters to each other on Substack, we had no idea how much what we wrote, or indeed the act itself, would capture your imaginations.

(For those who want to catch up, you can find the first of Lily’s letters to me here and then follow the series as we go back and forth over eight letters. We will return with another series in the Spring.)

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Writing is about connection. It is about finding those commonalities through shared experience. So when anna wharton and I discovered each other’s work we both thought: ‘now this is a woman I could sit down and chat for hours over a bottle of wine’. Yet geography – and the miles between us – made that impossible. So instead we committed to writing letters to one an…
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2 years ago · 29 likes · 20 comments · Dr Lily Dunn

But again, what appealed to many of you was the nostalgia of letter writing – the excitement of having a penpal, the anticipation of waiting for a letter, or a beautiful postcard from some exotic land, to drop through your letterbox.

In this digital age we seem to have lost this art – this act of sending someone a little piece of our own art…

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