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I owe (欠) a young lady a letter.
She wrote to me last week asking how I was, saying she was fine and that she was enjoying the dress we sent for her birthday. She even drew a picture of herself wearing the dress. Then she wrote, “Please respond.”
I can’t remember the last time someone asked me to write back.
We don’t write letters anymore. The thrill is gone; there’s never anything good in the mail. We know what’s in the mail – advertisements (广告) and circulars (印刷信函).
When I was the same age as the young lady writing to me, my father took a new job. We only moved 200 miles, but it felt like we had been separated from friends, extended family (大家庭) and all things familiar by two continents and an ocean. Long-distance phone calls were rare and expensive then, most often reserved (预留) for emergencies or bad news.
But people wrote. Both of my grandmothers, and two of my great-aunts who were retired schoolteachers, all wrote letters. And they wrote to me.
It was special that someone took an interest in a homesick kid. That someone would take the time to put pen to paper and share their lives and inquire (询问) about mine meant a lot. It would mean a lot to anybody, really.
I spent many Sunday evenings straining (竭力) to compose (用心写) thoughtful and well-written letters. “Dear Aunt Mary, How are you? I am fine. I hope you are the same.”
My mother was a great letter writer. I looked forward to her letters when I left home, went
to college and then traveled across the country working newspaper jobs. When I married, had children and moved again, still far from home, she wrote faithfully. Letters were a way of closing the distance.
She was a natural storyteller. She could make a story about a dull (沉闷的) gathering where everyone sat on metal folding (可折叠的) chairs and had nothing but water to drink sound like a wonderful party.
But then, letter writers are storytellers because they are observers of the world around them. As phone calls became affordable, then cheap, the flow of letters slowed down and eventually stopped.
But that was not the case today. Today there were more than circulars and advertisements in the mailbox. Today there was something truly special, which takes me to my most delightful task at hand: “Dear Audrey ...”
Summary writing 概要写作
Please write a summary of the article in about 60 words.
参考答案：
A letter from a young lady made me think of the meaning of writing letters. When I was young, letters from my grandmothers and great-aunts meant a lot to me. Letters between my mother and me were a way of closing the distance. Today, phone calls are convenient, but writing to people is still something truly special and delightful.
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2022-07-31
