“She wanted letters. Real letters written in his handwriting on actual paper that she could hold and keep and read whenever the mood struck her. They were proof, solid and tangible, that someone was thinking about her.”

—  Jenny Han , book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

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