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\"\"I am thrilled to have my book Dear Universe, I Get it Now: Letters on the Art and Journey of Being Brave and Being Me<\/em> <\/a>featured on Laura’s Books and Blogs site.<\/p>\n

Here’s what Laura had to say about the art of writing letters.<\/p>\n

“Letter writing is a technologically obsolete art. However, that doesn’t necessarily make it useless. Letters can be as therapeutic, profound, and juicy as journal entries. And letters are meant to be read by someone other than the writer. Author A.Y. Berthiaume<\/a> took this concept and ran with it, constructing a memoir based entirely on letters.”<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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