Hi Friends/Family!
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We lived in China in the 90s and kept up an newsletter correspondence with many people who loved us, and we sent out more frequent "Dear Mom" emails as well. The idea was that if we wrote to an unnamed audience, our writing wouldn't have the same resonant voice that it has when we write to a specific recipient. So we wrote to our Moms (we were just kids, then, not even into our mid-twenties) and let the rest of our friends and family "eavesdrop" on the conversation. It’s a model that seems to continue to convey the right tone for friends and family.
Vietnam is fantastic, but it's still a Communist nation and closed political system where you should never write about Politics or Religion, even in private (dubious privacy, even when encrypted) and definitely not on Facebook. So I'll keep off of those topics in my blogposts and letters home. My own mom is pretty likely to want to talk about religion (we talk in "private-but-assumed-to-be-
Love,
~Tim/Janet
