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A Christmas letter to a dying friend

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Shaun Usher
Dec 22, 2023
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The following letter, written at Christmas in 1963, can be found in the book, Letters of Note: Love, in which it is reprinted by kind permission of Martha Freeman, granddaughter of Dorothy Freeman and editor of Always, Rachel: The Letters of Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman, 1952–1964. The audio I’ve embedded, featuring a reading of the letter by Natas…

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