[Serrart]

Originally Posted by paleshadow

Sure there is a difference, an open letter is written with the intent that it will be shared with a large audience. I'm not sure what you are suggesting though? Do you think she inteded the letter to be an open letter when she wrote it?

No, sorry for not being clear. I meant the opposite. She didn't write it to be published so she felt free to be more personal, as it usually happens in private letters. But some of the reactions seemed to me totally oblivious to this fact. I simply think different kind of writings deserve different kind of judgements. And I would simply apply this also to a George Bush's letter written privately and then made public. Even If I can surely exclude i'd have the warm fuzzies reading something he wrote... I need a good film now to cancel this image.

Romy