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A better, brighter future for the letter?
Last weekend I was asked by the BBC to write a eulogy to the letter: they seemed to like it so I thought Saga Zoners might like to read it, writes Emma Soames
Dear Letter,
I couldn’t let another day pass without telling you how much I have been thinking of you this week... You have been unjustly ignored for years but suddenly, thanks to a poorly written letter from the pen of our poorly sighted Prime Minister, you have been catapulted back into the front line – the place you occupied for so long until your saucy young cousin Email came to usurp your place in our lives. Now only older people use pen and paper to communicate with the outside world – the rest of us tap away on a keyboard fast and often thoughtlessly.
