This is the ninth instalment of a series, 20 Letters, where I share letters I wrote and sent via the post, throughout 2020 and 2021, to people in my life. Read more here.
“It’s always summer in this Southern state
and it’s a comfortable life in a beautiful place
but something’s rattling somewhere inside
and it sounds like it’s broken
but in a place I can’t find
and it only gets louder with time”- Benjamin Gibbard, “Something’s Rattling (Cowpoke)”
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