Before anyone could send a message in seconds and forget it just as fast, there was a kind of friendship that ran on patience. You wrote the letter, waited for the post, waited for a reply, and somewhere in that slow rhythm, you figured out who you actually were — because you had to put it into words for someone who couldn’t see your face. Pen pals were not a novelty. For much of the twentieth century, they were one of the primary ways ordinary …
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