“What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.”
Liz Carpenter (1920–2010) American writer
“What we conceal
Is always more than what we dare confide.
Think of the letters that we write our dead.”
"Unsaid" http://www.danagioia.net/poems/unsaid.htm <br class="br">Poetry, Interrogations at Noon (2001)
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Think of the letters that we write our dead." by Dana Gioia?
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