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A lovely epistolary evening.(Metropolitan Times)(Party Lines)

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From: The Washington Times
Date: 19960216
Author:Outerbridge, Laura

Nobody read Shakespeare's sonnets, Elizabeth Barrett Browning or anything beginning with "Roses are red . . . "

But Wednesday's sold-out annual reading of Love Letters for Literacy at the New Zealand Embassy still managed to be both literary and, well, romantic.

Surrounded by sprays of red roses and balloons, author and former Librarian of Congress Daniel Boorstin read verses by his wife, poet Ruth Boorstin.

William Raspberry, columnist for The Washington Post, recited several sweet poems by Walter Benton, while National Public Radio commentator Susan Stamberg ...

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