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lil  ·  4027 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Pen Pals

If they fell into the "wrong" hands, better to not decode them. Just make something up. :-)

Going back and reading old journals (or old snail mail letters) can be interesting (or frustrating if the writing is too messy). I was reading an old journal the other day from when I was in my 20s. I wrote a line about how frustrating my affairs with T, D, and H were. I had no idea who T, D, and H were. I read through the whole journal looking for some reference to T, D, and H - and there was nothing. Eventually I figured it out. T. D. and H. stood for -- Tom, Dick, and Harry - in other words, a reference to men in general. Yeah, write neatly AND explain your abbreviations so your biographers don't suffer too much.