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Love Letters

I expected more.

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Java Ceridwen Bere
Aug 07, 2025
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Friends of ours are in the process of moving house. One of them told me he would be having a big clear out and letting go of things like old love letters.

I gasped in horror and beseeched that he do no such thing. Old bills surely, but not love letters.

‘They’re not even very good. I’ll hire a skip and then someone can discover them if they want to.’

I ask…

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