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Changing how we keep in touch

Letters are a thing of the past: but how much have emails and text messages changed what people write when communicating with far-off friends and family? Maybe not much at all… swissinfo.ch delves into the past and present to find out more. (Raffaella Rossello, swissinfo.ch)  

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