Here's a hypothetical for ya: Let's say you find a love letter from a brother/sister that never got mailed. Do you give it to them?
You know they (your brother or sister and their gf/bf) like each other, but you don’t know that they are this serious. Do you give it to them? Do you give it to the person it’s to? Do you just keep it forever and ever? Do you throw it away? Something else? And here’s another spin on it: What if this was a while ago that you found it, and now they’re getting married? Does this change anything? Love to hear your take on it.
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I’d give the letter to the person who wrote it and let them decide what they’d like to do.
Give it to the person who wrote it. It is so not any of your business to give it to a recipient.
If they’re getting married you read it aloud at the reception, of course!
But seriously, as @Likeradar said, give it to the person who wrote it.
Hum, didn’t even think of that. How did you find this letter, was it sealed?
I once found a “time capsule” letter my then teenage brother had written himself that was sealed. I opened it and regretted it, learned all about his sex life, regretted it (I was about 11), and hid the whole thing in my brother’s sock drawer. He never said anything so I assumed he thought that he had opened it, hid it there himself, then forgot.
So the lesson is that hiding things in the sock drawer always works, try it.
I concur with what seems to be a unanimous consensus.
I mean, me too.
It is not yours to decide what to do with at all. The only honorable action is to return the letter to the writer.
I found it unsealed and without any envelope or anything. It was in a desk drawer of a desk that I got when my brother moved out. This was a few years after my brother moved out to college. The letter was one of the few things left in the desk. The rest was pretty stupid stuff. I think it was a first draft thing. It’s really bad handwriting and tons of stuff is scratched out and added in.
@ChocolateReigns: Still give it to your brother, it may become something sentimental he and his now wife will cherish or if he never sent the letter in the first place, he might do so now as a romantic gesture, maybe fine tune or whatever. You never know but it surely couldn’t hurt to pass it to him.
Giving it to the person who wrote it seems the best and right choice for me.
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