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In “Letters from Home,” the time honored, hard copy letter from home meets the 21st century technology now used by families and soldiers to stay in touch. And its serial style mimics the real time descriptions filed more and more often from overseas battlegrounds and the homefront alike.
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“At least here on the Internet, it has a little chance of immortality,” he says.
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