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This Sunday the World is running an interview with Jason F. Wright -- not to be confused with the Tulsa World's own Jason Ashley Wright. Mr. F. Wright is the author of a novel called "The Wednesday Letters," the plot of which turns on a series of notes a husband wrote to his wife each week during their long marriage.
In the course of the interview, I asked Wright if he wrote such letters, and he replied that he did, though not every week. "Maybe once or twice a month I'll write a letter to my wife," he said. "That's probably more than average."
And in today's world, with its email and text messaging and other impersonal means of communication, it is a bit unusual to pick up a pen and make marks on a piece of paper, just to let someone know you care, that you're thinking about this person, that you want to share a bit of yourself with them.
At least, that's what I try to do when I write a note to my wife -- something I've been doing every weekday for the past, oh, 20 years.
She's kept most of them, too -- not that they contain any sort of deathless romantic prose or profound thoughts. Often these notes are utilitarian to some degree -- to remind of what I'll be doing that day, share suggestions about what to do for dinner.
But she keeps those along with the ones that are more deeply emotional. They are all tiny pieces of our life together.
When was the last time you wrote an honest to goodness love letter to someone who means so much to you? Or maybe the question should be, When will you?
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