Then, I didn't get any response for like three months and then to my surprise I got a hand-written letter, in kind of a trembling handwriting; I still have it.

直到三个月后,我才收到回信,这竟然是一封手写的回信,爵士用他颤抖的手亲笔写的,我依然珍藏着

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I think it's in part that, suffering from lupus, she was very much confined to her house in Georgia, and the letter writing, this kind of correspondence, was certainly a way for her to keep in contact with the world of readers and other writers and friends.

我想这多少与她，受病痛的折磨有关，受制于病情，她只能呆在,乔治亚州的家里，足不出户，所以写信，必然是她和读者、,其他作家和朋友联系的方式。

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