A man who knows how to write a personal letter has a very powerful tool. A letter can be enjoyed, read and 1 . It can set up a warm conversation between two people far apart; it can keep a 2 with very little effort.
I will give 3 . A few years ago my older brother and I were not getting along well. We had been close as 4 but had grown apart. Our meetings were not 5 ; our conversation was filled with arguments and quarrels: and every effort to clear the air seemed to only 6 our misunderstanding. Then he 7 a small island in the Caribbean and we 8 touch. One day he wrote me a letter. He described his island and its people, told me what he was doing, said how he felt. Rereading the letter, I was 9 by its humor and clever expressions. These were all qualities for which I had 10 respected my older brother but 11 he no longer had them. I had never known he could write so well. And with that one letter we became friends 12 .
