In an age of electronic mail and text messages, handwritten letters made a fierce comeback in 2013. One infamous example is a message from a board member of a sorority telling off her sisters for "LITERALLY being so f-----g AWKWARD" because they could not partake in Greek Week activities.
The sorority sister who wrote the message resigned, but not before the message went viral. Throughout the year other letters made the rounds on the Internet, the most popular of which Yahoo! Shine presents in "2013: The Year in Letters and Notes."
A Mom's Unconditional Love: "Your sexual orientation does not define you," wrote Michelle Conway McClain to her son, Zach, who is gay. McClain found out about her son's sexuality when he came out on Facebook. To show her support, McClain wrote a letter to her son and posted it on her own Facebook page.
"I want you to know that I love you unconditionally," she wrote. "I love you with my actions, not just my words. I'm so proud of you. You are the bravest person I know. I'll fight for you always."
Mall Employees Stage Walk Out: Employees at a Journey store hung a note on the store's security bars in September announcing they were all quitting. The letter was addressed to their abusive manager "Jamie," who curses at them and once told an employee "Cancer is not an excuse." The employees, who also pulled down the store's metal gate, concluded the note with "Think next time you treat people the way you do. We aren't allowing it anymore."
Nursing Mom Gets Birthday Surprise: Mothers who breastfeed in public often attract negative attention. Bodi Kinney, a mother and waitress at a pizzeria in Des Moines Iowa, understood that. When Kinney saw Jackie Johnson-Smith nursing her son while celebrating her birthday with her family, Kinney handed a note to the mother's husband that said "I bought one of your pizzas. Please thank your wife for breastfeeding!"
See Yahoo! Shine's list of viral 2013 letters here.
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