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A message is sent within a second and no one is unreachably far away anymore. Yet the letter still appears at important moments in life \u2013 in farewell, remembrance and loss, the power of written words becomes tangible again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The creators read from personal and borrowed letters. Texts are also shared from Vincent van Gogh, Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Charlotte Bront\u00eb, Pedro Salinas and Jean-Paul Sartre. 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