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  "id": 459102,
  "title": "I’ve discovered the joys of postcard-writing in middle age | Amanda Uhle",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/10/ive-discovered-the-joys-of-postcard-writing-in-middle-age-amanda-uhle",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-10T10:00:42.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Guardian US",
    "slug": "the-guardian-us",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/10/postcard-writing-letters"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "There are profound rewards of handwritten correspondence in our digital age I sent my first postcard, as a six-year old, to Olympian Mary Lou Retton, who returned an autographed black and white photo of herself in a wide smile and chic haircut. “‘GOOD LUCK USA ‘84” it said. There followed four relatively fallow decades for me as a postcard sender or receiver until last year, when I became…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}