As part of our ongoing series on the value of letter-writing, we asked you to tell us about letters that have brought bad news – and whether those letters changed your life.
We heard stories of jobs that never materialized – and wives who did instead – and consider famous rejections sent and received by the likes of Kurt Vonnegut, the editors of MAD magazine, and Mister Rogers.
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