as I was at my friend's flat, my friend discovered some letters and postcards in the loft - I think it was a few different people writing to a boy called Trayen. He must have lived there years ago as the letters were dated around '97.
The letters and postcards are quite brief and simple, and also very informal and colloquial in places. I think it's an interesting glimpse into this person's life, as you can only guess their relationship from this fragmented correspondance, they will always remain a dark silhouette...
trayen, baby how ya doin'? I'm sitting in a bar in Greece. Actually I looking after the bar while the manager plays pool. It's beautiful out here. I get free drinks because I'm helping behind the bar. The place on the front is where we go at night somteimes. I'll call you when I get home. I love you babe. Love Georgia xxx
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Dear Trayen, I hope you are well and not too stressed about your exams and stuff. Things are swinging on as usual here, and it's all pretty peaceful really. I really miss Jess at the moment though I've not seen her since the last week and in December I probably will have called before you read this because it's bank holiday sunday
I'm sitting on a park bench by the river and all these couples keep walking past holding hands, it's making me feel nauseatingly single
See you soon babe
Emma xxx
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"When In Rome" (Dedicated to Trayen)
When I see you in the morning
Putting on your pretty clothes
I watch you do your makeup
Like they do in all those fashion shows
And you go away and your gone all day
but your coming home to night.
But when your home, darling all you've got to be is you
But when in rome do as the romans do.
I like that they are quite blande and ordinary - they aren't gut wrenching love letters or deeply revealing
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hehe no there a load of crack :P i got dirty getting them and they where not even good pf i would have liked some murder talk or cheating and what not somthing dark and epic
I've been missing your posts!
This is really interesting. I've created a whole character for Trayen even just from those few postcards... I wonder what he's really like.
Aw thankyou Jenny! I ran out of thoughts and things for a while
I know what you mean about wondering what he is like, these girls seem to think of him so thoughtfully.
I suppose these may be similar things that are written in text messages and emails but the fact that it's more solid and a less efficient way of communicating - taking days to get there and such - makes it seem more precious in a sense.
Yes - and so much easier for a stranger to come across. It's odd because the more we rely on technology to communicate, the less people will find treasures like these. We can find out everything about everyone these days; there isn't much mystery.
I found a stack of old postcards lately; unfortunately they were all in French and in unintelligible handwriting anyway. It would have been nice to have known, though.
Suzy x
Oh no, what a shame Suzy. I suppose never knowing makes them even more intriguing however.
Jenny
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