Letter of the Week
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The state of limerence is most obviously a fantasy, defined by psychologist Dorothy Tennov as the romantic fixation on an idealized version of an individual and marked by an inability to focus on one’s life, attempts at resolving the uncertainty about whether the romanticized individual feels the same, and extreme distress when considering the possibility…
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This is a curated selection of letters that left a mark on the world, on someone’s life, or just in the margins of time.
Each is transcribed with care and respect for the medium that first carried it: the typewritten page.
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