We Used To Send Letters

“Once upon a time, people used to write missives by hand — and share them on paper”
 — Do you remember when you had to take your tongue and, using your own saliva, physically moisten the back of a tiny piece of paper which you would then affix to the top right corner of a larger piece of paper (which held within it an even bigger piece of paper, which you had to fold into thirds with your own fingers, cramped though they might be from the forceful application of ink to the piece of paper so that you might convey your message in printed or scripted words), and then you would take out your tongue again to lick the back of the medium-sized piece of paper so that you could seal up the large-sized piece of paper, and then you would force your feet to convey you to a large blue box down the road into which you would toss the entire tongue-swazzled thing so that eventually a person in comical shorts would come and bring it to a place where they would direct it to the person whose name you had scribbled on the front? Younger readers are probably amazed that we all once lived this way.