Purity of Expression;

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    The purity of Expression does not include a tweet, text, phone call or an e-mail (which are all great for quick exchanges on the most pertinent pieces of information).  What I'm speaking of is the pure simplicity of writing a letter.  The writing and reception of letters will always offer an experience that modern technology cannot touch.  But when it comes to sharing one’s true thoughts, ardent love, sincere sympathies, and deepest gratitude, words traveling along an invisible superhighway will NEVER suffice. Why? Because there is no real effort involved here.  When you send a true hand written letter, in your correspondence write with consistent ease and naturalness of expression. Especially in the long letters of friendship and love,the language should show that the heart is pure. Let your letter be a record of the mood of the hour; the reflex of your aspirations, your joys, your disappointments; your faithful and moral worth.   Your letter should be a representative of yourself, not of anybody else. The world is full of imitators, be original and sincere.
You keep a letter for always.  It's not a greeting card that has a one line expression on the inside saying why you might be sending it, receiving a hand written letter is almost as good as showing up in person.  My Grandmother Peggy has always written me beautiful letters and notes my whole life.  I still have every letter ever written from her.  The memories are precious when I smell the old envelope and read her writing. It's hard to find people who will take that effort now.  To write their true feelings on a piece of stationary which equals time and thought and yes snail mail once again.  

"You little dream how much that letter may influence your future.

 How much it may give of hope and happiness to the one receiving it.

How much it may be examined, thought of,

laughed over and commented on;

and when you suppose it has long since been destroyed,

it may be brought forth, placed in type,

and published broadcast to millions of readers."

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