Sadly, people no longer write letters. The ritual of writing a letter by hand, carefully placing it in an envelope, licking a stamp – and shuddering slightly at the taste – is in the past. It wasn't only love letters that made your heart skip a beat when you opened the mailbox and found a blue or white envelope. There were letters from family members living far away, from friends who kept in touch this way, letters from the border, sometimes censored, from overseas pen pals teaching you more about their distant countries.
In today's world, where snail mail is an unknown phenomenon for the younger generation, it's hard to imagine that instant communication simply didn't exist back then. You had to wait days, sometimes weeks, or even months, before…
