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In August 1988, Fred Rogers received a letter from a lady named Tina LeBlanc Sadoski, regarding her daughter who was in hospital...
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Isn’t it a good thing that all the bad stuff isn’t bunched up together in one person?
Happy Birthday Johnny Cash.
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Feb 26
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You were in her thoughts
When published in 1963, Jessica Mitford’s wittily scathing exposé of the funeral industry, The American Way of Death, instantly aggravated funeral dire…
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Feb 24
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Dirty bacon dirtier eggs and dirtiest Potatoes
John Keats' Eats
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Feb 23
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People simply empty out
In 1969, publisher John Martin offered to pay Charles Bukowski $100 each and every month for the rest of his life, on one condition...
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Feb 22
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"I simply can't write letters."
(She definitely could.)
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Feb 18
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Really, Mr. Walpole!
In 1918, British novelist Hugh Walpole decided to contact a critic who, in an article in The Daily News on the subject of someone else entirely, had ma…
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Feb 17
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I’m going to mope about you and then I’m going to have a bath and I’m going to mope about y…
For Valentine’s Day, a letter from the hand of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas that was written to his future wife Caitlin Macnamara in 1936, a few months afte…
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Feb 14
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