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love letters. Theyamp。39。re the ones from my generation, the ones ofus that have grown up into a world where everything is paperless, and where some of our bestconversations have happened upon a screen. We have learned to diary our pain onto Facebook,and we speak swiftly in 140 characters or less. 你們知道嗎,這些信件最常讓我觸動(dòng)的地方是 大多數(shù)的信件都是由 這些從來不知道情書為何物的人寫來的。 他們壓根不知道什么是手寫情書。 他們是我這一代的人, 在我們這一代成長的世界, 一切都是無紙化的, 而我們一些最好的對(duì)話都發(fā)生在屏幕里。 我們學(xué)會(huì)把傷心事記錄在社交網(wǎng)站Facebook上, 我們的話精簡在140個(gè)字符或以內(nèi)。 But what if itamp。39。s not about efficiency this time? I was on the subway yesterday with this mail crate,which is a conversation starter, let me tell you. If you ever need one, just carry one of these.(Laughter) And a man just stared at me, and he was like, amp。quot。Well, why donamp。39。t you use the Internet?amp。quot。And I thought,amp。quot。Well, sir, I am not a strategist, nor am I specialist. I am merely a storyteller.amp。quot。 Andso I could tell you about a woman whose husband has just e home from Afghanistan, and sheis having a hard time unearthing this thing called conversation, and so she tucks love lettersthroughout the house as a way to say, amp。quot。Come back to me. Find me when you can.amp。quot。 Or a girl whodecides that she is going to leave love letters around her campus in Dubuque, Iowa, only to findher efforts ripple effected the next day when she walks out onto the quad and finds love lettershanging from the trees, tucked in the bushes and the benches. Or the man who decides that he isgoing to t