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For 70 euros ($85.90) Graziano, a 39-year-old
journalist, interviews people who want to write love letters and
then drafts the letter for them. Her clients include men and
women, people who are gay and straight, married and having
affairs.
"Today, to write a love letter is revolutionary," said Graziano,
who produces around six letters a month. She said she does not
know if her clients tell the recipients they had help in
composing the handwritten notes.
"I try to comprehend their sensations, their emotions, and then
I transcribe them," she said. "The planet's great leaders have
ghostwriters."
For Stefanini, 44, the letter was a way of rekindling her
marriage.
"Like all couples, we had a bad patch. I said to myself, I need
to find a different way to reinforce the relationship," she
said, seated at the dining table in central Rome where she had
just finished penning the letter as Graziano dictated.
"Maybe the ardor that was there 18 years ago has faded a bit,
and I was worried I wouldn't find the right words to transmit my
emotions," she said.
Stefanini pressed the letter into the hand of her husband,
Stefano Carli, 45, and left him to read it. Afterwards, he was
visibly moved.
"If you want to say 'I care for you, I love you, I always think
about you', you write it on Whatsapp or Facebook Messenger ...
this is much more real," Carli said.
(Additional reporting by Gabriele Pileri; Writing by Isla Binnie;
Editing by Matthew Mpoke Bigg)
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