To indulge in the inventory of memories here for a bit, I recall when people wrote letters.

FORBES: After The Post Office

Their lawyers wrote letters saying I had ambushed them and asked offensive questions.

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Even though my father left us when I was two years old, and I only knew him from the letters he wrote and the stories that my family told, I was luckier than most.

CNN: Obama's Father's Day speech

She wasn't somebody who could stand up and, say, like a Paul Robeson, make a whole sort of statement, but she could sing this song, and apparently, according to letters from--that I read of William Dufty, the ghostwriting journalist who wrote "The Lady Sings the Blues, " the FBI and other peoples actually said if she stopped singing this song they would give her an easier ride.

NPR: 'With Billie': A Jazz Great, As Others Saw Her

My mother wrote letters to my father in the summer she rode with the Freedom Riders, and you know, I think that even as she might have imagined such a moment, I don't know if she would have believed that it could occur in her lifetime.

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