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Gloria Horton-Young's avatar

Read your wonderful article and immediately bought the book.

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Jerry Portwood's avatar

so great to hear! thanks for liking and commenting (you never know how things will land when you publish into the void).

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Gail Marlene Schwartz's avatar

What a fantastic interview and I'm now so looking forward to reading the book. The handwriting adventures and misspelling mentioned really piqued my interest, as that's such a rich part of the letter-writing tradition. Many thanks for this essay, Jerry!

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Jerry Portwood's avatar

so glad to see that you enjoyed! I plan to do more interviews and book pieces as time allows so this is great encouragement

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Emillio Mesa's avatar

I love this so much! The older, the better. The love that dared to write its name! I still have the letters my British pen pal sent me when we were 18. And he has mine. We met via an ad from the back of Rolling Stone magazine.

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Jerry Portwood's avatar

yes the letter writing into the void is something that was a great experience in retrospect (and sad we've lost it in our instant communication era)

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