People Don’t Know How to Break up With Each Other Anymore
Part of the rationale for the online diss is the distance between lovers. But in the olden days of the 1990s and before there was distance too. There were also these things they called letters.
In a letter, either the dumper or the dumpee could explain in detail why a relationship wasn’t going to work or exactly how a lover’s cold shoulder had affected them. With today’s technology, you often know if someone received your message. Letters, however, provide the catharsis of writing them as well as the bliss of ignorance if the recipient doesn’t read them.
Although letter writing isn’t about to make a huge comeback — we’re too lazy now — there is a lesson to the art of the breakup in some of history’s best Dear John letters.
Although the full text of Jackie Kennedy Onassis letter to her high school boyfriend is not available, the passage shared online reveals a creative mind with enough respect for her boyfriend not to beat around the bush.
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