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The Demographic Shift - 52

I was thinking the other day about how no one writes letters any more. It must be an age thing. Then out of the blue I had one of those blast-from-the-past emails, which was sparked by a 15-year-old letter.

I am pretty much of the generation when, as students, we all feverishly wrote letters to our friends. As everyone scattered around the country, in a North, South, East and West type diaspora, letter writing became an essential part of student life as we kept friends informed of the important things going on in our angst-filled lives.

These letters in most cases, as I seem to remember, concerned keeping everyone up-to-date with exactly how drunk you had got in the student union bar last Thursday and Friday, the bands you had seen, the women you were dating, oh and the fact that you had pulled an all-nighter on some essay.

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