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Hey everybody, it's Marielle.
There is a scene in the Jane Austen novel Pride and Prejudice where the main character,
Lizzie Bennet, receives a letter from her will they, wo n't they, hate you, love you, sexy crush man, Mr. Darcy.
He actually hands it to her in person.
It's really dramatic.
And when I tell you the anticipation I felt as she opened the envelope,
the way I got butterflies in my stomach the first time I read this letter, I felt like I was her.
That obviously says a lot about the immersive magic of a good book, but also about the potency of a well-written letter.
The drama, the intrigue, the focused attention that it drums up in the recipient.
Rachel Syme and I are kindred spirits in this way.
I loved reading novels that turned on a letter.
I loved watching You've Got Mail and The Shop Around the Corner and all these sort of films about correspondence.