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Letters to Chicago
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Letters to Chicago

we write to escape, we write to embrace

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We used to call someone to whom we wrote letters from across an ocean a penpal. Nowadays, they’re simply called digital friends.

For the past few months, I’ve been exchanging letters with writers who inspire me to create or think in a different way.

Writing a letter to someone I’ve never met before allows me to engage in a different kind of writing than …

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