Dear Typewriter (A Love Letter)

Dear Typewriter,

It's been a while since we last saw each other. I'm sorry I haven't kept in touch, but I promise you're never too far from my mind.

It's not that I haven't wanted to visit you, because I've often wished for nothing else, but time and distance are between us, and those two chasms are not easily crossed.

But now the time is right for us to be reunited once more, and we shall never be apart again.

Words simply cannot describe how I've missed the feel of your keys under my fingers or the satisfying clicks of letters forming on paper.

What I would give to hear that blissfully definitive chime as I reach the end of one line, or the grind of the carriage returning to start another.

[Left, Right]

I even miss your groan of disapproval whenever I tear away another page, unfinished and abandoned. I miss your attempts to cover my mistakes, and the scent of white-out when you don't quite succeed.

I must admit, I never thought I'd miss the battle with your ribbon; the battle that I inevitably lost time after time, scarred with slashes of ink and black hands for days on end...but I do.

[Left, Right]

Because despite your cracked case and your sporadically stuck keys, you're reliable. You're trustworthy. You're honest. We've had our fair share of disagreements, but in the end you never let me down.

And most of all, you never stared at me blankly with an insolent blue screen of doom. You never once threatened to destroy all my work in a fit of petty rage, and the only time you ever uttered the word virus was when we wrote an assignment on the Black Plague (heavy material for a 5th grader, but interesting nevertheless!)

So thank you, dear Typewriter. Thank you for all the happy memories, all the work we completed together, and for waiting so patiently for me for all this time. I can't wait to see you again.

Yours truly,

Kit

Apologies for the super late post...after many blue screens of doom, and even the occasional green screen, my computer is slowly but surely recovering from a near-fatal virus. He's currently chilling out in quarantine but will hopefully be back in action tomorrow, because he holds the key to lots of goodies I was planning to share with you today! All's well that ends well.

Speaking of time running short, have you entered this week's Giveaway Goodness yet? You have twice as many chances to win, so get in there!

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