Letters Written By Teenagers to Their Current Selves

Scott Fulton said it was fascinating
to read a 20-year-old letter
from his 14-year-old self.
(Courtesy Scott Fulton)

Recently some people received letters written to them twenty years ago. No, Canada Post is not to blame - the postal service may be inefficient but it is not that slow.

Twenty years ago Saskatchewan teacher Bruce Farrer gave his Grade 9 students an assignment. He had them write letters to their future selves and promised to send these letters to them in two decades. Now retired, Farrer tracked down the writers and sent them the letters they wrote as teenagers to their current selves.

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