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brettdale

(12,384 posts) Mon Nov 19, 2018, 12:33 AM Nov 2018

Heartwarming and sweet letter

I hope this is real.

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Heartwarming and sweet letter (Original Post) brettdale Nov 2018 OP

What a great letter MustLoveBeagles Nov 2018 #1

It's hilarious, but Snopes says: frogmarch Nov 2018 #2

MustLoveBeagles

(11,636 posts)

1. What a great letter

Reply to brettdale (Original post)

Mon Nov 19, 2018, 12:41 AM

Nov 2018

The last paragraph is priceless. Serves you right Mrs. James.

frogmarch

(12,159 posts)

2. It's hilarious, but Snopes says:

Reply to brettdale (Original post)

Mon Nov 19, 2018, 01:00 AM

Nov 2018

A tale about the gift of a radio being used by a senior citizen to spite her equally aged nursing home roommate has been part of the folklore canon for more than 40 years, circulating in the days before the Internet as an item of Xeroxlore. (One of the visitors to our site found among his late father’s papers a May 1967 letter that included it.) Versions of this piece have been making the online rounds since at least 1992, and in recent years it has been circulated in the form of a faux typewritten letter dated 1982:

(Letter)

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/radio-fryer/

I don't care if it's fake. It's still funny!

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