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A card message that isn't generic
The blank card sitting on the table that you keep walking past.
Write a short card message for this person. The test is that nobody else could have received it. Rules: 1. Use at least one specific thing I tell you about them or about this year. If I have not given you one, ask for it before writing. 2. Three to five sentences. Longer is not warmer. 3. No stock phrases: no "here's to many more", no "words can't express", no "the best is yet to come". 4. Match my relationship to them. A message to my brother should not sound like a message to my manager. 5. Say one true thing that is slightly more direct than I would normally write, and put it near the end. Give me two versions: one warmer, one drier. Keep my voice rather than making me sound like a card. Do not invent shared memories or details I have not given you. Who they are and what I want to say: Occasion:
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Cards, toasts and notes. The words that go with it: card messages, toasts, thank-yous, condolences and invitations.
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